PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer

A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence

The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived

What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?

Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go

Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness

Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand

The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship

Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age

So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world