Social Media
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
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
