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Can we resist the age of the algorithm?

To resist, our culture needs less Netflix and more Miranda Priestly.

How to bag an arts grant: Professional creativity has become a privilege of the politicised ‘elite’

Literary largesse seems ever more contingent on ideologically-driven concepts such as race, gender and colonialism.

Kamala Harris is stuck

She remains a political partner to Joe Biden when America needs her to be a governing…

Ever younger ‘kidfluencers’ face online dangers

Thrust into stardom as young as five or six, can they understand the world they’re in?

There’s more than one way to ban a book

A serious strain of self-censorship has taken root within the left-leaning publishing industry.

How you feel about gender roles can tell us how you’ll vote

Competing ideas about the role of men and women shape our political life.

Western democracies have a talent problem

Able people of sensible views don’t go into politics. The results are all around us.

Inflation has unmasked the depths of our affordability crisis

Why a middle-class lifestyle remains out of reach for so many.

Gawking in awe at the Universe, together

Nasa's James Webb space telescope images are extraordinary.

COVID-19 and the curious case of the rental bust-up that never came

An arbitration scheme to handle pandemic rental arrears is currently virtually unused.

Show the carnage

Should America be forced to confront the truth of the carnage it so often ignores?