TikTok
In defence of Kirstie Allsopp
The jibe, commonly attributed to Napoleon, that England is a nation of shopkeepers, was at least a sort of compliment.…
How a TikTok dance craze turned into a brainwashing cult
Because you don’t – I hope – use TikTok you will never have heard of the Wilking sisters. But back…
Have we all become slaves to algorithms?
Kyle Chayka sees their constant feeds as flattening our lives, but the spread of Americanisation, which began long before the internet, is the real steamroller
Drunk on devotion
The intimate acoustic show can denote many things for an established artist. One is that, in the infamous euphemism coined…
The dangerous cult of ‘toxic parents’
Complaining about ‘toxic parents’ has been a viral hit on TikTok with videos on the topic racking up several billion…
It’s time for a reckoning with Chinese big tech
It has been a bumpy week for China’s beleaguered technology giants. They are under increasing scrutiny overseas, and the communist…
Low life
In theory TikTok knows nothing about me. I have posted two videos: one of my grandsons kicking a football in…
Page turner
How TikTok can make a book a bestseller
Video nasty
The TikTokisation of global politics
TikTok’s fake news problem
Something troubling is happening on TikTok. The video sharing app is sometimes dismissed as a place where young people go…
Troubles shared
The chilling rise of ‘IRA TikTok’
Sea fever
From ancient Greece to TikTok: Alexandra Coghlan on the pulling power of shanties
The useful idiots of TikTok
Tyrants have always had useful idiots to whitewash their crimes but few have proven as useful and idiotic as those…
The media’s TikTok blindspot
We learned about journalists this past weekend. Specifically, we learned about tech journalists who aren’t particularly interested reporting or analyzing…
Portrait of the Week
Home New regulations would compel people to wear a face covering in shops in England from 24 July on pain…
We need to talk about Democrats on TikTok
With his usual haunts closed thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, Cockburn has been clamoring for a new source of entertainment.…
TikTok is the world’s fastest-growing – and goofiest – digital platform, but should we fear it?
In November last year, an internet video made by a 17-year-old American went viral. The video was less than a…
