Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
British politics needs more Dominic Cummingses
You don’t have to like him, but he got things done
The common thread of progress
Textile abundance has underpinned the modern world
We must embrace the AI revolution
Its risks are serious, but its uses could be miraculous
Life in Trusstopia
What would things be like if Liz Truss had continued to govern?
Letting data live
The secrets of semiconductors
A union of roads
How driving has brought us together
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
