Social Media
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
In defence of anons
Anonymous accounts did not cause the rioting, so why are they being blamed?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art