Communication
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
The Online Safety Bill is still far from perfect
Do you want Nicola Sturgeon deciding what you can say?
Freeing Speech
A new report is gratifyingly pro-freedom and pro-free speech
Stop mining!
Deeper data shafts just produce useless piles of waste
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
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
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT