Hacking
A gripping insight into cybercrime
Hackers and state institutions are rarely far apart
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Demystifying the cyber-hackers
What is being kept safe, and how, and from whom, are not just engineering questions
Post-Colonial
When will we get serious about cyberwarfare?
Twitter’s shadowban confirmed
The Twitter hack revealed the social media giant’s secret toolkit
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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
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
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
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world