With “cancel culture” political correctness has indeed gone mad
The opposite of intolerance used to be tolerance. But as ideology has given way to identity, it has become intolerance of intolerance instead. On platforms like Twitter, a posturing left exists in unwitting symbiosis with the angry right
What the evidence tells us about the sources of hateful online abuse
Coordinated misogynistic campaigns are prevalent across Europe. The solution lies in better regulation and cultural change
I quit Twitter and it made me happier. So why have I gone back?
Because Twitter is a microcosm for the big life questions
The Prospect podcast #70—How to have better political arguments online
Adam Wagner talks to Prospect about twitter tribalism and how to rise above it
How to have better online arguments
Drawing on a human rights perspective—and recognising our opponents' dignity—could be the key to changing our internet discourse
Prospect editorial: the outrage factory
Frivolity in the face of political emergency
Case study: polite politics versus Twitter twaddle
Online abuse would have warped my perceptions if I hadn’t met Corbynite activists in real life
How Twitter poisoned politics
The strange story of how the decline and fall of political life has been fuelled by a website that started off as a platform for sharing gossip and cat photos
Want to have faith in humanity? Delete the news apps from your phone
Cathy Rentzenbrink on the dangers of obsessing over the news
How a twentieth century poem found a new form on Twitter
This is just to say / that the internet / is the perfect place / for one imagist poem
Mark Thompson is shouting in a hurricane
A plea for more moderate political language is admirable but doomed to fail
The internet is not killing reading
Digital technology is actually fuelling a love of literature