There’s an idea kicking around that “woke” is killing culture. According to elder statesmen of the arts, from John Cleese to Sean Penn, do-gooders and virtue-signallers are suffocating the life out of ...
If, like me, you missed the October 2024 episode of BBC’s Panorama, you may well have wondered about the fallout it engendered: the resignations of two of the broadcaster’s top executives, a ...
Fearful of divine retribution for slavery, Thomas Jefferson remarked that he trembled for his country when he imagined that God is just. Some observers today are also trembling. They perceive Donald ...
The narrator of Ted Chiang’s short story “The Great Silence” is a parrot at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The bird watches as humans desperately seek life in other solar systems using a huge ...
Last summer was all about brat and demure. This summer was about slurs against AI. New terms for a middle-aged man who treats ChatGPT as his new best mate: second-hand thinker, slopper, groksucker.
The startling Netflix hit Adolescence reminded me of “Liam”, a student I met while doing research for the book Gen Z, Explained. At the age of 11 Liam had begun hanging out with alt-right subcultures ...
On 31st October 2023, barely three weeks after the start of the war in Gaza, Mike Rothschild shared on X a number of screenshots of posts about the war. One, by “Elizabeth Farrell” (aka ...
As world leaders gathered in New York for the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, few would have had Resolution 2758 uppermost in their minds: most attention was focused on the continuing horrors ...
The chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to appoint a corruption commissioner to recover £2.6bn lost to fraudsters during the Covid-19 pandemic. There will be millions to retrieve from local ...
What’s your favourite book of the 21st century? The key authors today are female crime novelists, so it’s Tana French’s The Likeness. If there ever was a subtle leftist novel, this is it; one can ...
In June, I found myself in Kensington’s Olympia exhibition centre for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference, an annual right-wing talkfest in London co-founded by Canadian ...
The new prime minister’s TikTokking antics would once have seen him carted out of Downing Street. But now? Barely anyone cares ...
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