Social media
The secret of my most amazing achievement ever
Just before Christmas I achieved something so totally, incredibly amazing that I think it probably ranks among the greatest things…
Technology without responsibility
We know they can be good citizens when they want to be. So why are the technology giants acting in ways that could endanger us all?
You shouldn’t watch Dapper Laughs. But you really shouldn’t let the likes of me stop you
As you’ll know by now, I’m big on thinking the right things. Should a thought strike me that m’colleague Rod…
Real life
People don’t listen. It’s a relatively new thing. People used to listen, to varying degrees. You had your good listeners…
Barometer
How to deal with a troll In Scandinavian mythology, trolls were shady creatures who lived below ground and varied in…
Letters
Faith and flexibility Sir: What a contrast in your two articles on religion last week: one liberal atheist parent (Claire…
A slap in the Facebook
My female friends’ social media habits are too bitchy even for me
Murder porn
It’s time to stand up against the self-righteous sharing of videos of beheading and other gruesome violence
All together now
Individualism is dead: we have succumbed to the lure of the crowd
Dear Mary
Q. My 16-year-old son, who has recently had his first experiences of Clubland, has observed to me, his mother, that…
The triumph of the bores
Being boring was once the worst of all social sins. Now it’s practically compulsory
Bugger
The French for tête-à-tête is one-to-one now, according to a new survey of English invaders by Alexandre des Isnards. Actually,…
When scaremongering stops being funny
My grandmother, Nanny Nancy, is 99 and going strong. But it can’t be denied that while she’s all there mentally,…
Little Brothers are watching you
If you use the internet at all, companies will be grabbing whatever information they can find about you
Letters
Why we joined Sir: I was astonished by the assertion made by Wyn Grant (Letters, 21 September) that ‘the postwar…
Old friends
Facebook makes reinventing yourself at university much trickier
It’s not hate that Caitlin Moran can’t stand. It’s being disagreed with
Hell, it’s been tough, but I think I’ve pulled through. I went out this morning to buy some cigarettes and…
Online comments help me understand the Nazis
Matthew Parris 18 October 2014 9:00 am
Like many, I’ve always been a bit baffled by the story of the rise of Nazism. The Germans I’ve met…