Social Media
I hate engagement bait
Social media can be a tool for uncovering the truth, but also for obscuring it
Keir Starmer is confused about kids
How can they be old enough to vote but not old enough to use social media?
The worst reply guys on Twitter
A taxonomy of tedious Tweeters
Päivi Räsänen is the face of Europe’s free speech crisis
We must stand up for freedom against a culture of left-wing censoriousness
Against the EU’s online censorship regime
Experts are speaking up for free speech in Europe
We are all extremely online now
Hand-wringing about the “extremely online right” is futile and hypocritical
The left don’t need Big John
Political movements embarrass themselves by trying to recruit unlikely spokespeople
Viral outrages
Why has a random act of murder captured the attention of the internet?
Parliament vs the First Amendment
A transatlantic free speech showdown is playing out over the Online Safety Act
In defence of online anonymity
Anons are not just rude or radical — they are challenging stale orthodoxies
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes