Technology
The dehumanising danger of social media
Josephine Bartosch says that far from facilitating an enriching meeting of minds, the online world is producing a dystopian world that is breaking us apart
It’s time to shake up Britain’s industrial intervention policy
The National Security and Investment Bill is a great first step towards ensuring Britain’s long-term economic prosperity
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How has political reporting changed in the last twenty years, and is it all for the worse?
Why is Britain good at R&D but has so few major tech companies?
Mike Lynch offers his solutions – from ARM to post-Brexit regulation
A troubled behemoth
John Bowers QC reviews Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy
What does AI’s possibility make us think about ourselves?
The real moral danger of ‘artificial intelligence’ is not what you think it is
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
Priests and palaces
The Archbishops don’t realise the significance of the church building
The Knobjective Worldview
The creators of the internet can’t stand the idea we have messy, human bodies
Wild ride for the Bitcoin billionaires
Cryptocurrencies have gone from geek heaven to serious business
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Britain has an industrial strategy, but it’s bad
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
March 2024: Letters to the Editor
Record-setting sons and founding fathers
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
