A review essay, published at the New Left Review blog, on the history of The Spectator and what it tells us about Britain’s new political elite.
The history of The Spectator
The politics of like and dislike
Essay in the London Review of Books, on how media and new technologies are harnessed to trigger ‘culture wars’.
‘How Boris Johnson and Brexit are Berlusconifying Britain’
Comment piece published in The Guardian, on the election and the end of liberalism.
‘Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?’
Long Read published in the Guardian, on the ‘bias’ wars that now dominate our public sphere, and the challenge posed by ‘big data’ to the traditional media.
