Social Media
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
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
