Sister act
She was the sequinned star of the airwaves back in the 1920s, the first preacher to realise the potential of…
The nation’s mental age is four, and dropping
I wonder how long it will be before we actually crawl back into the womb? The average mental age of…
Dogs of war
I’ve spent years in conflict zones. But the scariest thing that’s happened to me involved two bull terriers on a Norfolk beach
Murder porn
It’s time to stand up against the self-righteous sharing of videos of beheading and other gruesome violence
The reassuring triumph of Big Mother
Feminism in modern Britain is not for the faint-hearted. Only the smartest, mouthiest girls on the social media scene dare…
I love Israel, so I’m allowed at least one bad joke about it
I expect all of us have said something we regret at one time or another, but not everyone does so…
Spam, spam, spam
Junk email is 20 years old – and bigger than ever
Forever on the march
On a recent weekend I was thinking of taking my sons to downtown Istanbul to do some bazaar browsing. ‘Bad…
Investment: Be tech savvy
Technology investing has come a long way since the dotcom bust
Death does not become us
Shortly after Bob Crow’s death was announced on Tuesday, Nigel Farage sent the following tweet: ‘Sad at the death of…
Long life
With regard to modern technology, I find that people of around my age — by which I mean people in…
Investment: America vs gravity
Reality may be about to reassert itself after an extraordinary hot streak
Letters
Papal blessing Sir: In his excellent article on Pope Francis (‘Pope idol’, 11 January), Luke Coppen mentions the satirical rumour…
Diary
It’s amusing to see serious journalists and authors struggling to use Twitter under instruction from their newspapers and publishers. They…
The friends of others
Everyone you know is stalking everyone else you know – even if they don’t know each other
Twitter looks much more expensive than Royal Mail, but which one will last longer?
Royal Mail delivers to 29 million UK addresses; last year it generated £9 billion of revenues, of which £324 million…
Boring politicians are a threat to democracy. That means you, Rachel Reeves
I’ve never met the woman that the Newsnight editor Ian Katz this week accidentally described as ‘boring, snoring Rachel Reeves’,…
Diary
If you haven’t scuffled you haven’t lived, and our local scuffle is the best of the best. A scuffle is…
The sad story of Oprah, the handbag and the shop assistant
Listen, this story is moving so quickly stuff will almost certainly have happened in between me writing it and you…
Learn to switch off
Why not give your smartphone a holiday?
Sorry, but internet trolling will be with us forever
This is not to be a column about Twitter. Can’t abide columns about Twitter. I’ve written a few, I know,…
It’s not hate that Caitlin Moran can’t stand. It’s being disagreed with
Rod Liddle 10 August 2013 9:00 am
Hell, it’s been tough, but I think I’ve pulled through. I went out this morning to buy some cigarettes and…