Digital Media
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
