Sebastian Milbank

Sebastian Milbank is Associate Editor of the Critic. He tweets at @JSMilbank

Why is British ambition perpetually sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency”?

There is no defence for the expansion of the university system

How has ethnicity become such an inescapable and toxic topic?

There is a vast epistemic divide between those who experience decline, and those who don’t

Christianity is not just a private faith, nor a set of traditions, but a way of individual and collective life

A new film provides an unusually sympathetic portrait of dislocated masculinity

Extremism appears to be more of a problem with the university’s present than its past

Radicalisation is more fuelled by the nightly news than by shadowy “disinformation”

Most of us, not just minorities, have lost our sense of being meaningfully British

Democracy, having been devalued, is now being turned into a farce