Internet
It’s the phones, stupid
How can we help books to compete with YouTube and Instagram?
Deepfake dystopias
Why we need to take women’s online safety more seriously
Don’t blame the internet for youthful disaffection
Material conditions are more to blame than social media
Southport is no excuse for censorship
The government is being weak-minded and opportunistic
In defence of “stirring up”
The law should target harms and not the potential for harm
Cotton ceiling 2.0
Straight men should not be trying to seduce lesbians
The tyranny of brain rot
Obsessive screen use is sending young minds down the Skibidi Toilet
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth