Social Media
Britain needs Thomas Skinner
The country needs some optimism in miserable times
Let’s ban the TV
Television, not the internet, is driving people mad
Social media is just the latest enemy of public health puritans
Screens might not be good for us, but that is no excuse for a moral panic
Gary Stevenson is a new voice for old ideas
Garyism is a triumph of style over substance
Resist the social media moral panic
The case against social media is both hysterical and hypocritical
Beware digital sanctity
Virtue signalling online is no substitute for actual virtue
Dismal bytes
Despairing at “food” on the web
How the press has changed
A new, faster and less deferential media is springing up to replace the old guard
Don’t blame the internet for youthful disaffection
Material conditions are more to blame than social media
This rape gang proves that my politics are correct
Online leftists are shamelessly politicising a horrendous crime
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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
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete