Social Media
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
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
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly