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
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy