Paul MacDonnell
Paul MacDonnell is the Executive Director of the Global Digital Foundation. Follow him at @paulmacdonnell
No one expects the EU Inquisition
The Digital Services Act would appoint “coordinators” with an army of “trusted flaggers” to police digital speech in every EU member state
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Up with expertise, down with experts
Politicians should be informed by experts but not led by them
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power