Surveillance
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Elon Musk and your digital soul
Don’t let Musk’s image blind you to his business ambitions
The criminalisation of private speech
Parliament and the courts are engaged in a creeping campaign of mass surveillance and censorship
A timely warning from history
Are Churchill’s and Orwell’s warnings about to come to pass?
Into the lion’s mouth
Nigel Jones laments the rise of the British snitch
The man who exposed the watchers
David J. Garrow reviews Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
The menace of camouflage
There’s something dark about the spread of sartorial concealment to civilians
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
