Surveillance
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
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Superunintelligence
Have we witnessed the rise of ShappsGPT?
Neither “side” can offer peace to the holy land
The logic of partisanship turns lethal when it comes to Gaza
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
The dark horse of Durban
The work of Roy Campbell does not deserve to be ignored
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
Steering clear of titfer tat
We now are seeing the first flowering of a head-dress renaissance
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
What the Conservatives should learn from Keir Starmer
The only way to reform the Tories is to purge
