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The Tories push on with their porn crackdown
This afternoon the government announced the official launch date for its age-verification scheme for online pornography. As of 15th July,…
It shouldn’t just be down to tech firms to keep our kids safe online
When I’m not being a writer or a journalist, I often go into schools and talk to parents and young…
Tell us your broadband woes
My anecdote last week about upgrading to BT’s ‘superfast’ broadband provoked several readers, unasked, to tell me their own unsatisfactory…
Could investing in website names make you an internet millionaire?
With the savings of the nation languishing around 1%, it’s no surprise that UK consumers are turning to increasingly creative…
‘I’m not marching towards some utopia, I’m marching towards my Oscar’: Jonathan Pie interviewed
At some point in the early 21st century, comedy stopped being funny. Politics became the biggest joke on earth, thanks…
Inside the Ecuadorian embassy with Julian Assange: Risk reviewed
‘This film would not have been possible without the following encryption tools,’ is one of the least expected film credits…
More Google woes at the Treasury
Oh dear. It’s not turning out to be a great week for staff at the Treasury. After George Osborne declared…
What does the Tim Hunt saga tell us about the future of democracy?
A friend of mine, who attends a top UK University, recently attended a generic debate on feminism and sexual violence.…
The idiot economy – behind the ‘dark web’ cyber-crime busts
Spectator Money is out, with ideas on how to make it, spend it and even how to be seen spending it. Freddy Gray looks…
In the court of King Dave, can Cameron phone home?
An absolute gem in the Telegraph’s morning memo today by Stephen Bush, who claims that the Prime Minister has more…
Will Self is wrong (again): online reading isn’t negligent reading
Dim the lights, half-muffle the bells, replace your Hatchard’s bookmark with a strip of black crepe: the novel is dead.…
The government’s drugs strategy is miles behind today’s drug dealers
New powers to tackle the huge growth in ‘legal’ highs are set to be introduced. Dame Sally Davies, the chief…
Why is The Daily Dot, smooth and sassy website of ‘the internet community’, publishing racist nonsense?
The Daily Dot, founded less than two years ago, is best read while sipping the flattest of flat white coffees.…
The Mozilla controversy suggests that the sexual revolution is getting ugly
If you’re reading this on Firefox, you can rest assured that your custom is not going towards any hateful, disgusting,…
On Nuts magazine
If I had a fourteen-year-old son, I’d be pretty disturbed by the news that Nuts magazine might fold. Fortunately, I…
The Spectator website through the ages
How has The Spectator weathered the first 25 years of the web? In Simon Courtauld’s excellent history of this magazine…
Happy 25th birthday to the World Wide Web. What comes next?
On this day in 1989, the World Wide Web was born. Tim Berners-Lee, a contractor at CERN, published a paper…
An announcement for Tony Hall: BBC3 was already dead
Two words tell you everything you need to know about today’s announcement that BBC3 is to become an online-only channel:…
What shall we do about Neknominate?
I wonder if we should start our own Spectator Blog NekNominations? Open to bloggers and readers. I nominate Daniel Maris…
State sanctioned sex
After bullying from the government, our major internet providers are now ‘filtering’ pornographic websites, so that children don’t get to…
David Cameron’s crackdown on child porn is not over yet
Parliament returns from a three day break today, but the headlines this morning are dominated by the international crackdown on…
Has anything in the recent past had a bigger effect on writers and writing than Twitter?
I’ve been trying to think of something – anything – in recent years that has had a bigger effect on…
If you’re on your summer holiday, why are you reading this?
I’m in two minds about blogging this post. On the one hand, I’d really rather be on a sunny beach…
The Tories bag Jim Messina
It’s a good time to be a Tory in Westminster at present. Labour is under pressure. The backbench dissenters have…
What GOV.UK doesn’t want you to know
At last. They’ve done it. The government has unified every snippet of data about itself on a single website. GOV.UK is…
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