Social Media
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Elegy for the phoneless youth
The lost romance of growing up without the internet
Social media can be good for young people
It has its risks, but what doesn’t?
Brave new sperm
How men and women are being encouraged to extend their fertility
Art is not all about you
It is not elitist to expect audiences to be quiet
The BBC’s Insta-reality
The BBC should be more careful with its due diligence
Your face is the new interface
The ugly future of facial recognition
The Israel-Hamas conflict and the failure of the information war
The fear of disinformation can lead to an intellectual and political quagmire
Is Britney Spears really okay?
She doesn’t look as if she is “living her best life”
Everybody I hate is a groomer
Hyperbole and hysteria in the rule of empire of online puritanism
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
