Silicon Valley
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
Proper pro opera
Fun with fear and failure
Silicon Valley’s apocalypse
Reality is coming back to bite
Back to the future
How Hunt’s embrace of technology risks repeating Blair’s folly
A California nightmare
What is the future of the Golden State?
The scammer in you
Sam Bankman-Fried is not unique
Fake it ’til you break it
Tech’s dangerous cult of genius
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
