Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The triumph of Twee Britannia
We must resist the siren songs of Bake Off and Boaty McBoatface
The death of dystopia
Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths
A left-wing Limbaugh
James O’Brien has become a part of what he loathes