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?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers