Letting the blob go online
Why is the “Vote Leave Government” giving a Quango so much power over our online speech?
Plagiarism in comedy – homage or theft?
How a hugely popular American satirical show ripped off an online British comedian
Cabinet Wars – Episode 2
Comparing the Cabinet on Twitter might suggest who is on manoeuvres – and who’s dropped the social media ball
Cabinet Wars – Episode I
How do the cabinet and shadow cabinet stack up on Twitter?
2+2 doesn’t equal 5
What is truth?
Saying racists are racist is better than more silence
Twitter bans and self-denying ordinances won’t erase anti-semitism
Twitter’s shadowban confirmed
The Twitter hack revealed the social media giant’s secret toolkit
The Silicon Valley English Dictionary
Twitter’s engineers agree that prejudice is hard-coded in our language
The silence of the self-censoring writers
Our writers must be bold enough to write the words they want to write, independent, and stronger for that
Inside the academic war on free speech
Good-quality academics are being filtered out due to an illiberal culture of ‘cancelling’ on university campuses
Letter from Washington: Biden delivers
2020 isn’t 2016 and Joe Biden isn’t Hillary Clinton
“I’ll tell you and you’ll listen”: the Neil Kinnock speech that lives on
The moment of pure political theatre that endures its legacy thirty-five years on
When Political Families Fall Out
Has the dysfunctional family replaced the dynastic one in politics?
Letter from Washington: America’s pre-existing conditions
An unwell body politic must reckon with a sick president
Braving the goblet of fire
Nick Cohen salutes J.K. Rowling, whose latest work reflects her burning sense of justice and refusal to take the easy route
Democrats are right to raise questions about Amy Coney Barrett
Will the Supreme Court’s new justice be able to commit to American secularism?
The myth of Scotland’s Covid superiority
Scottish Government advisers are using misleading data to promote Scottish exceptionalism
Breast is not always best
The obsession with breastfeeding is hindering women’s freedom of choice
When you pile tragedy too high, you sell it too cheap
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery (until 31 October)
Don’t kiss me, Kate: purging the American academy
Was Kate Pickering Antonova Twitter storm an unintended announcement of academia’s irrelevance?