World War E
Twitter, Musk and the corruption of the Internet
Ben Sixsmith and Sebastian Milbank discuss social media, Elon Musk, the corruption of online spaces and their least favourite Twitter accounts.
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Manager or meme?
Is Musk’s takeover of Twitter a good thing, a disaster, or just very funny?
How the Second World War was mapped
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about a vital factor in wartime production that military history often overlooks
A world fit for humans
Both the internet and our real-world shared spaces must be improved
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age