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Letting the blob go online
Why is the “Vote Leave Government” giving a Quango so much power over our online speech?
The world leaders who battled coronavirus and won
How is it that our most eccentric world leaders have been the ones disproportionately affected by Covid-19?
A timely warning from history
Are Churchill’s and Orwell’s warnings about to come to pass?
Arise Sir Ed, saviour of King’s College London
An online ‘clap for Sir Ed’ will no doubt be forthcoming for an award justly earned
You’ll take it and like it
Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris
Conflict in the Caucasus
How much worse will the historic conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh get?
Follow the Who Funds You
Oddly nobody’s shadowbanning conspiracy theories about the Great Barrington Declaration
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
Are conservatives losing?
Conservative parties may be good at winning elections but have they lost the argument?
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
What women have lost
How can women focus on traditional feminist issues when spiteful men are demanding to be included?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Digital killed the analogue man
Despite the seductions of the virtual, we can’t escape our bodies
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
