Sebastian Milbank

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

We could do a lot worse than a marriage with our closest continental neighbour

The old sedition laws are a tried and tested standard

Rachel Reeves’s misery sums up the state of the Labour government

The NHS is a moral covenant that will soon be entirely broken

Keir Starmer has already wasted his opportunity to govern

Sentimental myth-making will not paper over the cracks in British society

With the barbarians at the gate, this vote was a last sacrifice to the NHS

The grooming gangs scandal has shamed Britain

Starmer is caught in the same mud that has swallowed every government of the last decade

The modern Left is losing coherence even as the populist Right is gaining it