Sebastian Milbank

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

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

We must yet wait with bated breath for her to (possibly) announce a policy Reform has already adopted

The police cannot keep plodding along while their reputation collapses

Under Sadiq Khan, London is being surrendered to anti-social behaviour

Pope Leo XIV must resist the siren call of celebrity culture and follow his own faith

Britain needs a narrative of unity, and a harsher attitude towards separatism

Labour must address Britain’s deep social dysfunction to address its economic dysfunction

The philosopher who diagnosed liberalism’s contradictions