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 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
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
