Social Media
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
A troubled behemoth
John Bowers QC reviews Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Whither Parler?
Bias and censorship on social media are real problems, but Parler may not be a panacea
The eye of the storm
Marie Le Conte on the bruising experience of inadvertently becoming the target of a Twitter feeding frenzy
The blind eye turned to Barrow
What’s not newsworthy about fascists, Islamists, grooming and death threats to journalists?
Learning to love on Twitter
Our online behaviour is, if the last two months are anything to go by, depressing
The internet court of no appeal
How social media firms are policing everything we say
Policing the Courts
The principles behind Harry Miller are for politicians to determine, not judges or the police
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
The school as a battleground
Michaela defeat will not deter Islamist designs on schools
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
