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Oct 21, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Brendan O'Neill |Timandra Harkness
Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. That footage of Yahya Sinwar’s last, gasping breaths before he was justly shuffled off this mortal coil was extraordinary. Here we had the death agony of a fascist broadcast to the world. Crooked and hunched in a chair coated in dust, in a building bombed almost to nothing, he stared forlornly at his final foe: an Israeli drone.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Lauren Smith |Timandra Harkness
Agender, demigender, autigender? The Scottish Nationalists are lost to trans ideology.
Share Topics Identity Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. How many genders are there, exactly? Most people would answer this formerly straightforward question with a resounding ‘two’. Or they might junk the whole gender concept entirely and say there are two sexes.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Tom Slater |Timandra Harkness
This is an edited version of a speech Tom Slater gave at the Battle of Ideas festival on Sunday 20 October 2024, in the session ‘The polarisation problem: can we speak across the divide?’. I’d like to spend the time I have mounting a trenchant defence of polarisation – or at least what is often called ‘polarisation’ by our political and media classes. The narrative that is constantly being spun at the moment is that, as of about 10 years ago, politics was… perfect. It was consensual.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Timandra Harkness
Jon Moynihan on how the UK went from an industrial powerhouse to an economic backwater.
Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Britain, the nation that birthed the Industrial Revolution, is now a world leader in deindustrialisation.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Timandra Harkness
Share Topics Long-reads Science & Tech Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. I’ve spent over a decade writing and talking about technology, and how central it is to our changing way of life. I am excited about the potential of technology to improve human lives, from medical advances to more plentiful, clean energy and faster, cheaper travel.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
unherd.com | Timandra Harkness
2024 General ElectionaiConservative partyLabour PartyPoliticsReformUKTechnologyTikTokUK Is this the online election? The AI election? The TikTok election? As somebody who’s been writing about data-driven political campaigning for about a decade, I’m going to stick my neck out and say “no”.
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May 26, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Rainer Zitelmann |Paul Monk |Ewan Morrison |Timandra Harkness
The widely discussed private space missions financed by billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are only part of a far larger development in the space industry, where the focus is shifting from government agencies to private companies.
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May 24, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Paul Monk |Ewan Morrison |Timandra Harkness |Iona Italia
On Sunday 19 May, a 1970s US-made Bell 212 helicopter carrying the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian crashed as it flew back to Tehran from Azerbaijan. Both men and several other passengers were killed. Raisi was a widely detested figure known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” and there has been a good deal of rejoicing in Iran at the news of his death. We should share that sentiment.
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May 23, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Timandra Harkness |Iona Italia |Larissa Phillips |Russell Blackford
IntroductionThis week, you’re in for a treat because my guest isn’t just a razor-sharp observer of the American culture wars, she’s also wickedly funny, in person as well as in print. Her name is Nellie Bowles, whom you might know from her work covering Silicon Valley at The New York Times until she quit in 2021 after observing—or perhaps enduring is the better word—her newspaper’s slide into vicious social-justice bullying among young members of the editorial staff.
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May 22, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Timandra Harkness |Julia Friedman |Paul Berman |Damien Freeman
Some people might be surprised to learn that I have just published a book entitled Technology is Not the Problem. After all, I regularly point out problems with technology in our asymmetric world, where a few companies or organisations collect data about us all, aggregate and analyse that data and use it for their own purposes.
