Britain’s online censorship bill
The government’s Online Safety Bill will make us more like the autocracies that propagate disinformation
Novel weapons
Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?
Covid is a symptom of the Age of China
British statecraft is not protecting us from an emerging autocratic superpower
What does the Anti-Racism report mean for the Church?
The Church of England cannot afford to kowtow to all of the demands made by the Church’s Anti-Racism Taskforce
Not Justin time
Sarah Ditum says that the focus on Timberlake as a bad agent conveniently forgets the machine behind him
Have schools lost their true purpose?
Schools have become too focussed on training talent in service of the economy to the detriment of individual and collective flourishing
Cavalier with the facts
PMQs pitches a Cavalier prime minister against his Roundhead opponent. But Boris risks a lot as “the Rupert of debate”
The woodfired brick wall
It’s grim down south
I’m afraid of Americans
The culture war is not left against right, but the US against everyone else
Crying Wolffe
The Alex Salmond inquiry has been hobbled by legal intervention – so why can the media publish what politicians cannot discuss?
Iran’s nuclear conspiracy theories
Fantastical elements of the ‘cyberattack’ on Iran do nothing but delay the inevitable: a bomb is still coming — just not quite yet
Blurred history
Britpop has a bad reputation for stolid, white-boy basicness now, but it’s not a reputation Parklife deserves
What’s in a name?
Dominic Hilton laments the various lunacies surrounding his name