Social Media
Breaking the smartphone spell
Parents need more help
The Facebook police
New policing guidelines are wholly ineffective
Beware the crisis crisis
Constant catastrophism is destroying our brains
The West’s self-defeating sanctions
America and its allies are committing geo-political suicide for no discernible gain
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
Should the police censor music?
Drill music presents itself as the soundtrack of liberation, but it’s dangerously mired in gang violence
From Worms to woke
The resemblance between woke and the Reformation goes beyond means to content
A death sentence for freedom online
The Online Safety Bill won’t make us the “safest country to be online” — just the most boring
Manager or meme?
Is Musk’s takeover of Twitter a good thing, a disaster, or just very funny?
Islamism, not social media, killed David Amess
Why won’t MPs and ministers speak frankly about the motives for his murder?
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
