Sebastian Milbank

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

Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed

American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation 

Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations

A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war

Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed

Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art

Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments 

Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age

Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand

The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty