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
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
