Social Media
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
The death of the literary feud
When writers become fighters
Elon Musk and your digital soul
Don’t let Musk’s image blind you to his business ambitions
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
