Social media
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
The new PC from A to Z
Anyone who thought political correctness had croaked, joining neon leg warmers, mullets and MC Hammer in the graveyard of bad…
Twitter style
I don’t know if you tweet — No! Don’t turn over, I’m not going to get all techie. I do…
Gagging order
Why has politics turned into stand-up?
Lapsing into a comma
Modern manners and the fear of the full stop
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…
Online comments help me understand the Nazis
Like many, I’ve always been a bit baffled by the story of the rise of Nazism. The Germans I’ve met…
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
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…