Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The scammer in you
Sam Bankman-Fried is not unique
Kanye West and celebrity
Celebrities have always existed to be made examples of
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation