Technology
Physical media matters
We can’t trust streaming services to archive entertainment
Creatives are dorks
Cheerleading women is not the answer to gender imbalance
Lessons of The Jetsons
The economic future foretold by the 1960s cartoon could hardly have been wider of the mark
The arts must secede
Against the cultural-industrial complex
The apple of my ear
Limitless choice and a rattle of regret
Playing it by the book
Are books as physical objects already obsolescent?
Raid homes to get back phones
Cops need new powers to retrieve stolen property
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
Brute pleasures
Let us now praise famous concrete
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
The cowardice of Sir Stephen Fry
Fry does not deserve credit for his belated change of course on gender issues
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Je suis Charlie, ten years on
We must never succumb to the jihadi’s veto
A day in Scientopia
When we think in terms of science, do we lose our humanity?
Bad guidance and empty words
The government cannot be trusted to protect single-sex spaces
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
