Social Media
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
How Tik Tok is helping motability claims
A welfare scheme expanded into absurdity is being boosted by viral social media accounts
The road to online Hell is paved with good intentions
The Online Safety Act is a disaster for freedom and innovation
VPN nation
Overbearing laws are encouraging a breakdown in trust
The problem of online ugliness
It is not good for us to surround ourselves with so much unattractive media
The Online Safety Act is an abomination
It is making us less free, not more safe
Go substack yourself!
I’ve had it up to here with your nonsense!
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
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
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible