The nanny internet of Sacha Baron Cohen
At least some backlash against the internet has been down to one of the basest human instincts: self-interest. Incumbent journalists, politicians, and other pub...
Category: Opinion
Why you shouldn’t unfriend your political foes
For all that political rhetoric lauds communities bound by shared values, people generally live in communities built on place, education, employment and recreat...
A hopeful weekend could see defeat for the anti-democrats
For a leaver who took Tony Benn’s view that the EU was not democratic enough, the past few years have been dispiriting to witness. Politicians’ gorm...
Universities’ influence on jobs remains a huge obstacle to social mobility
The British have an unhealthy obsession with schooling. At a time of vague if well-nurtured class boundaries there remains an easily understood boundary between...
The flexitarian diet is a model for moral progress
Our politicised age is one of black and white thinking, deeply felt tribals loyalties, and hunting traitors who denounce the faith. As with previous eras of sec...