Surveillance
TikTok is the world's fastest-growing – and goofiest – digital platform, but should we fear it?
TikTok is the world’s fastest-growing – and goofiest – digital platform, but should we fear it too, asks Robert Jackman
How to catch a thief
My tech guy Andy appeared on the doorstep in a puff of smoke. I had just texted him to ask…
How capitalism killed sleep
What is behind the modern plague of sleeplessness? Laura Gascoigne goes to Somerset House in search of answers
In China’s new surveillance state, everyone will be watched, reviewed and rated
The dark side of China’s high-tech society
Oliver Stone is far too certain that Snowden's a hero: Snowden reviewed
If you were to see one film about American whistle-blower Edward Snowden — there is no law saying you have…
A Girl in Exile: Ismail Kadare’s novel is full of absence
My last review for The Spectator was of Julian Barnes’s biographical novel about Shostakovitch. A Girl in Exile also depicts…
The watchers and the watched: Patrick Flanery's I Am No One
‘First and last I was, and always would be, an American,’ Jeremy O’Keefe, the professor narrator of Patrick Flanery’s new…
All washed up: Birmingham after the apocalypse
The dystopian novel in which a Ballardian deluge or viral illness transforms planet Earth has become something of a sub-genre,…
My dirty secret: I don’t care either way about state surveillance
The Snoopers’ Charter. I ought to care about this. I’m a sort of libertarian. I believe in personal freedom. I’m…
By the book: The NSA is behaving like a villain in a 1950s novel
The continuing drip-feed of stories about governments and friendly-seeming internet giants sifting through our data has left some citizens feeling…
Ten reasons why conservatives should take Edward Snowden seriously
So why are British conservatives determined to ignore his revelations?
Dear Mary: How can I escape my neighbour’s spy cameras?
Q. I have a problem with what might be called location blindness. I live in Balham, but when I arrange…
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