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
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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
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
