Media
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s nodding dogs
The SNP have been enabled by uncritical British media
The disingenuous anti-vax blame game
People have short memories about the MMR scare
Where is the media scrutiny of surrogacy?
The Pope is concerned but journalists seem indifferent
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Fraser Nelson’s immigration holdout
The columnist may still be fighting but the war has been lost
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
