Social media
High life
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it, tweeted Jon Ronson, a man I’d never heard of until…
I may have to revise my view that crypto-currencies are Satan’s work
I confess to being an out-and-out Luddite when it comes to bitcoin and other so-called crypto-currencies. To the extent that…
Women’s issues are for everyone now, not just feminists
‘Women’s issues’ are for everyone. So feminism is obsolete
Isis takes its British schoolgirl jihadis seriously. Why don’t we?
When the first schoolgirls ran away to Isis I had some sympathy for them — at least, I could see…
The problem with Corbyn’s hatred of the media
The new leader walks across a bridge, in the dark, while the journalist asks him questions. He’s not shouting, this…
Twitter speak
‘Tweeting’s like text messaging, isn’t it?’ said my husband confidently, though not, as usual, from any knowledge of the matter.…
Eugenics for your email
You won’t read much about Sir Francis Galton nowadays because, while it’s inarguable that the man was a giant in…
Barometer
Peers’ peers Forty-five new peers were created. Are we alone in having an upper house of parliament made up of…
The breast test
New mothers who can’t keep to the breast-feeding orthodoxy face needless misery and shame
Long life
We learn from a new report that children in England are among the unhappiest in the world — more unhappy,…
The dangerous food fad
The ‘clean eating’ revolution is more likely to make you ill than healthy
Flashmob rule
It is the duty of MPs to resist Twitter storms and online petitions
Caught on the net
Going online does not make you invisible – as the adulterers who used the hacked site Ashley Madison are discovering
Dying for attention
In the social media age, breaking ‘the last taboo’ is de rigueur
Long life
The smart phone is a wonderful thing. We are never out of touch anymore, neither with friends nor with the…
Web of sin
Why don’t more people object to online promotion of adultery?
Diary
For the first time since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team six years ago, a Test match side…
Migrants face many dangers. Are we one of them?
A few weeks ago someone very dear to me passed on a question about The Spectator, asked them by a…
I second that emoji
Why my generation has fallen for the smiley-face cult
Shrunk
America’s psychoanalysts are becoming an endangered species
Why we lie to ourselves about opinion polls
A strange ritual takes place on Twitter most evenings at around 10.30 p.m. Hundreds of political anoraks start tweeting the…
Why do bright schoolgirls run away to Syria?
How could they? How could girls brought up in the wealthy West abandon their families and their own bright futures…
Click and flick
Romance is being killed off by the brutal marketplace of dating apps such as Tinder
Rise of the new young puritans
Twenty-first century political correctness isn’t benign: it’s creepy and all too keen on witch-hunts
Naming and maiming
India Knight 21 March 2015 9:00 am
Jeremy Clarkson has been getting it in the neck from Twitter’s (I was going to say) tricoteuses — but social…