Internet
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
The unstoppable rise of geek culture
The cult of Elon Musk reveals some horrible truths about our non-virtual world
Nadine Dorries is watching you
The Online Safety Bill threatens basic liberties
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
Netspeak
How we can — and must — win the war on language
They’re not trans activists; they’re Chris Morris fans
A group of bitter wannabes have been targeting me for fifteen years
Stop calling everything porn
Diluting the meaning of a word disguises the harm of the real thing
A pimp-led pyramid scheme
OnlyFans’s decision to remove porn creates a Catch-22 for those who are reliant on it
The day my terrier found internet fame
Why do some videos go viral while others slide into oblivion?
The eye of the storm
Marie Le Conte on the bruising experience of inadvertently becoming the target of a Twitter feeding frenzy
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
