Fred Sculthorp

Birmingham was once an economic powerhouse with a proud civic identity. Today it is at the forefront of a battle for the new England

Traditional broadcasters find themselves adrift in a radically different twenty-first century

Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline

The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems

“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism

The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion

Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings

The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny

Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon

TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news