TikTok
From digital freedom to the virtual panopticon
The generation that grew up online is watching the web close in
A short-form solution
Labour’s answer to illegal migration borrows the aesthetics of successful enforcement without the substance that made it work
TikTok tournaments
“Sportertainment” is a consequence of this age of short attention spans
How Tik Tok is helping motability claims
A welfare scheme expanded into absurdity is being boosted by viral social media accounts
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
The performance of a lifetime
Dylan Mulvaney’s mimicry of women is absurd
Tick tock for TikTok
The platform is endangering young people
Corecore and cultural fragmentation
Young people are picking through the rubble of old aesthetics
Most Read
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change