Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Zuckerberg’s revenge
Tech barons are building the future for us
Power without pain
Social media “platforms” such as Twitter and Facebook plainly are publishers.
They should be held to account as such
Social media hypocrisy has huge implications for liability
Social media’s ridiculous denial of partisan editing and publishing
Letting the blob go online
Why is the “Vote Leave Government” giving a Quango so much power over our online speech?
A troubled behemoth
John Bowers QC reviews Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy
The internet court of no appeal
How social media firms are policing everything we say
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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
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?