Media Bias
Social media is just the latest enemy of public health puritans
Screens might not be good for us, but that is no excuse for a moral panic
Resist the social media moral panic
The case against social media is both hysterical and hypocritical
Battling the bullshitters
Why be a loser when others are winning by spewing nonsense?
The end of the news
The appetite for all journalism wanes
The slow, inexorable death of television news
Traditional broadcasters find themselves adrift in a radically different twenty-first century
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
The death of dystopia
Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
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.
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age