Social Media
Et tu, Brute?
I shouldn’t have read through the list of my accusers, but I did
Are knitted jumpers racist?
Why has the social media fashion trend ‘Dark Academia’ been criticised for being ‘too white’?
Why conservatives shouldn’t migrate to Gab
If Gab’s ideal of freedom is defined by Christian Reconstructionists and fascist philosophers, then free speech will be the means, rather than the end, of the reconstruction of social media
Instagram vs. Brexit reality
It’s Instagram that is turning everyone and everywhere the same, not the UN, not NAFTA, not the IMF, and certainly not the EU
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
Social media giants are platforms, not publishers
Conservatives who dislike Twitter’s politics shouldn’t make things worse
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 virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
The ghosts of Tory past
The Conservatives are haunted by the spirits of the last two decades
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Reformed towns
The Reformation was a transformative moment in English urban history
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
