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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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable