The coddling of the Gen Z mind
Internet slang has infantilised an entire generation, and undermined the gravity of the moment.
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Spotify is not as cheap as it seems
And it’s making music worse.
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Our unhealthy obsession with habit tracking
In 2025, its trendy to monitor everything from your microbiome to your macronutrients. Is this really healthy?
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How 4chan became the home of the elite reader
The left is losing its grip on the literary realm.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s fake internet empire
The plan to swamp Facebook with non-human accounts will change social media forever.
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Luigi Mangione’s twisted radicalism
Why has the internet rallied around a mysterious suspected assassin?
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Spotify Wrapped can never trump the mixtape
Every Christmas, I make my own end-of-year playlist – a small act of resistance to outsourcing one’s taste to the…
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The Onion has bought InfoWars – but the left can’t win by trolling the right
The giddy excitement surrounding this buyout misunderstands how the right operates.
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How to survive the age of anger
In Josh Cohen’s All the Rage, a psychoanalyst offers a path through the divisive world of online grievance and populist…
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The internet’s superiority complex
We know that being online can make us feel worse about ourselves – but we also do so to inflate…
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Why the internet blames BlackRock
In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, conspiracies have abounded.
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Politicians ignore the Mumsnet manifesto at their peril
It is hard to read the list of policy demands and not reflect that life is getting worse for British…
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America’s dime-store Nietzscheans
What the unmasking of an anonymous publisher and Twitter personality reveals about the far right in the US.
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The return of 2010s feminism
Concepts popularised and dismissed a decade ago have returned to mainstream popular culture. Are we living in a time warp?
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How to empower your employees to stay cyber secure
A zero-trust approach and user-friendly tech are vital defences against online threats.
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Social media’s brand problem
As young people get more of their news from TikTok we need to separate sponsored content from verified fact.
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Will the Online Safety Act protect us or infringe our freedoms?
After six years of development, child safety and free speech campaigners react to the long-awaited internet laws.
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The internet man is coming and I am anxious
I woke at nine with a feeling of impending doom but thought, well, at least I have four hours to…
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Tackling the digital divide through partnership – with Virgin Media O2 Business
A special podcast from Spotlight, the New Statesman’s policy supplement.
The power of policy-posting
The American XL Bully would never have been banned without Twitter.
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