Jonathan Haidt: “America is the ghost of liberal democracies’ future”
It’s hard to argue with the voice of reason. In April Jonathan Haidt, an American social psychologist at New York University, published an essay titled “Why the past ten years of American life have...
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Inside Jason Miller’s plan to turn the Big Lie into a big business – and a...
On 6 January 2021, like most Americans, Jason Miller watched on television as Donald Trump’s supporters tried to overthrow the government. Trump himself watched from the dining room of the White House....
View ArticleThe question is not why the birth rate is falling – it’s why anyone has kids...
This article was originally published on 19 February 2022. It has since been updated to reflect new fertility rate figures. There are some questions in politics — how we can close the north-south...
View ArticleThe problem with Instagram’s new “child recognition” software
If Instagram’s last year has been defined by anything, it’s the mounting evidence suggesting the platform has a negative impact on children. Despite the presumed connection between the popularity of...
View ArticleCan Twitter force Elon Musk to pay up?
Do the rules still apply to Elon Musk? He has successfully overturned much of the accepted wisdom about how a CEO should behave – being charged with securities fraud, getting high with conspiracy...
View ArticleSocial media’s consent problem
On an average morning scroll I might happen across any or all of the following: videos of an event last night that I wasn’t invited to, an infographic explaining gaslighting, a meme about Boris...
View ArticleWhy we should fear TikTok’s influence on news media
There’s a scene in the Channel 4 comedy Peep Show I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. It’s the mid Noughties, and three of the characters are sitting in a living room watching the news, which is...
View ArticleIf Silicon Valley wants to ruin Instagram, there is nothing we can do about it
About ten years ago, I lived in a three-bedroom flat in east London. I’d found it on Gumtree and shared it with an amiable Australian couple and a quiet Spanish woman. It wasn’t an ideal living...
View ArticleThe real problem with Instagram is not the photo vs video debate
In 2019 I had an almost entirely positive relationship with Instagram. I was on it for roughly 35 minutes a day, mostly looking at accounts that were either people I knew personally or posted content...
View ArticleWhat my toddler and I learned at Drag Queen Story Hour
Usually, being the mother of a toddler puts one at a disadvantage in the world of journalism. Long hours, travel and tight deadlines are all radically incompatible with being home at 5pm for the dinner...
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