Censorship
A little bit of curve
In praise of pop smut
Twitter suspends Tory MP
The social media giant did not give a reason
The Knobjective Worldview
The creators of the internet can’t stand the idea we have messy, human bodies
The internet court of no appeal
How social media firms are policing everything we say
Our offended selves
Subjective, judge-diagnosed feelings cannot be the basis for law
Don’t mention the war, or Alf Garnett
The ‘offensive’ TV landmarks censored from Britain’s answer to Netflix
Most Read
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends