Social media
Why I don’t do WhatsApp
If I could ban one question ever being asked of me again it would be: ‘Are you on WhatsApp?’ I…
Can Elon Musk take on the tech censors?
Is Elon Musk a match for the tech censors?
The algorithm myth: why the bots won't take over
The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer on how to stay ahead of the algorithms
What really happened to Politics For All
Why was Politics For All shut down?
My strange encounter with foot fetishists
My strange encounter with the foot fetishists
I’m sharing my boyfriend with 60,000 other people
The trouble with dating a social media star
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter ban is nothing to celebrate
Marjorie Taylor Greene is nuttier than M&M World. Not your garden-variety conservative, or even a conservative at all, but a…
Am I being impersonated by an actor from Colorado or a mining company?
Someone else with my name is wreaking havoc with my attempts to control the Twitter account I don’t want. Obviously,…
The good and bad news about the Online Safety Bill
If you care about free speech, the just-published report of the Joint Committee on the Online Safety Bill – a…
I’ve been back one week and the good old US of A has never seemed more depressing
New York Don’t let anyone tell you the Bagel is worse off than Kabul, where three people were recently shot…
Letters: The contentious issues of religious conversion
Hard to reconcile Sir: Although not an Anglican, I appreciate Michael Nazir-Ali’s dilemma (‘A change of mind and heart’, 23…
Why I say no to apps
‘My phone says I can’t go out until Tuesday, so I can’t come and meet you,’ said my friend. And…
The problem with ‘David’s law’
Two members of parliament have been killed in the past five and a half years. This, one long-serving MP laments,…
The Facebook empire is beginning to crumble
When empires crumble they slide slowly at first, then the temple walls come crashing down. Facebook is not quite at…
I miss life before Big Tech
Do any of you remember the time when everything took place on the terraces and in outdoor cafés? Before everyone…
Blue-tick Twitter is spoiling Emma Raducanu's victory
How do you take the pleasure out of something so marvellous and joyful as Emma Raducanu’s US open victory last…
Technology is robbing us of the power to forget
Technology is robbing us of the power to forget
I was held to ransom by hackers
I was held to ransom by hackers
Mesmerising and monstrous: @zola reviewed
The distinction between on and offline life blurred long ago. The greatest spats, sexual self-fashionings and mad soliloquies now unfurl…
Isn't it time social media cracked down on racism?
No sooner had Bukayo Saka’s penalty kick thudded into the gloves of the Italian goalkeeper than you could see it…
The bogus business of stigma-busting
Our society is bristling with social stigmas, we’re told, even in the progressive West, even in London. Life is so…
Beware Boris's sinister crackdown on free speech
A Conservative government that boasts it is a defender of free speech against the attacks of ‘the woke’ is about…
Big Tech is turning into Big Brother
The Big Tech social media giants are having to rethink their policy of censoring anybody who suggests that Covid originated…
How TikTok can turn a book into a bestseller
How TikTok can make a book a bestseller
A brilliant, tense, ragged slice of drama: Waiting for Lefty reviewed
A Russian Doll is a monologue about Putin’s campaign to swing the Brexit vote in his favour. It stars Rachel…
