‘Free bleeding’ and the stupidly clever feminists who fell for it
Did you know that tampons were just another brutal expression of the oppressive patriarchy? I must confess that I didn’t…
Why MPs have a duty to resist online petitions
It is the duty of MPs to resist Twitter storms and online petitions
I don’t do WhatsApp, and that’s final
‘No, I do not do WhatsApp.’ That’s pretty much all I ever seem to say to people nowadays. They ask…
The brave thing now: don’t write about your death
In the social media age, breaking ‘the last taboo’ is de rigueur
The chemically castrated are useless at crosswords: true or false?
After hitting me with the cancer diagnosis, the urologist offered me the choice of a longer life in exchange for…
Peter Oborne’s diary: My Pakistan cricket tour, and what the ‘no’ campaign needs
For the first time since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team six years ago, a Test match side…
How (and 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…
I have absolutely no sympathy for liberals who find themselves being called 'right-wing'
This week I would like you to share the deep pain of a liberal who has been called ‘right-wing’. This…
This terrifying book puts me off going online ever again —except maybe to Ocado — says India Knight
Jeremy Clarkson has been getting it in the neck from Twitter’s (I was going to say) tricoteuses — but social…
How do bright schoolgirls fall for jihadis? The same way they fall for Justin Bieber
How could they? How could girls brought up in the wealthy West abandon their families and their own bright futures…
Ha! vs Hahaha: the surprisingly subtle world of Twitter style
I don’t know if you tweet — No! Don’t turn over, I’m not going to get all techie. I do…
Send in the clowns - how comedy ate British politics
Why has politics turned into stand-up?
Ched Evans: law vs people power
‘This was the rule for men that Zeus established: whereas fish, beasts and birds eat each other, since there is…
Channel 4’s Cyberbully: an unashamedly old-fashioned drama in being both well made and moral
Channel 4’s Cyberbully (Thursday), written by Ben Chanan and David Lobatto, turned out to be a brilliantly gripping drama, even…
What techies are actually doing when they fix your computer
Just before Christmas I achieved something so totally, incredibly amazing that I think it probably ranks among the greatest things…
Matthew Parris: the barbarism of the Twitter mob
Are we heading for a new barbarism? Is this the return of the 18th-century mob? Here are more questions than…
Forget corporate social responsibility: just do a proper job
A theme of this autumn has been conversations about corporate reputation and how it is guarded or lost. To name…
Was this Christian pioneer of radio evangelism a fraud?
She was the sequinned star of the airwaves back in the 1920s, the first preacher to realise the potential of…
We’re all sulky toddlers now – even when launching space probes
I wonder how long it will be before we actually crawl back into the womb? The average mental age of…
I’ve spent years in war zones. And the most terrifying moment of my life just happened in Norfolk
I’ve spent years in conflict zones. But the scariest thing that’s happened to me involved two bull terriers on a Norfolk beach
No, I haven’t seen that beheading video. And it’s not right to share it
It’s time to stand up against the self-righteous sharing of videos of beheading and other gruesome violence
The voice of Big Mother does more for women than any Twitter feminist
Feminism in modern Britain is not for the faint-hearted. Only the smartest, mouthiest girls on the social media scene dare…
Yes, I compared Theresa May to an Israeli tank commander. Why is everyone so upset?
I expect all of us have said something we regret at one time or another, but not everyone does so…
Happy birthday, spam! Do you mind if we don’t celebrate?
Junk email is 20 years old – and bigger than ever
Compiling my greatest hits (and my Twitter trolls')
Annie Nightingale 25 July 2015 9:00 am
Compilation schompilation. Having been in music for as long as I have you would think I had a good idea…