Social Media
Cotton ceiling 2.0
Straight men should not be trying to seduce lesbians
The tyranny of brain rot
Obsessive screen use is sending young minds down the Skibidi Toilet
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
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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
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate