Author: James Graham

  • In his latest book, Nick Clegg unveils a plan to keep the internet free and democratic. But does he understand the internet, or what his former Silicon Valley colleagues actually want?

    Tech and the future part one: Nick Clegg — internet saviour?
  • Science Fiction critic Damian Walter has recently published a video essay about Dredd — primarily the 2012 film but also the comic and I guess I have a couple of things to say about it. Firstly, I think his comments about the film are all fair enough. I love the 2012 film; I recently rewatched…

    Is Judge Dredd a one-joke wonder?
  • Another dream about wandering through a cityscape. This time however it was about shopping. It started about going to an unnamed Oxford Street department store to look at their board game section. They had a massive range of 1970s and 1980s era historical war games which hadn’t sold in all that time and inexplicably they…

    Shopping for pencils
  • I think I was working at my old university’s student union or something (University of Manchester), except it was in Scotland. We were hosting a dinner with JD Vance and students and had promoted it, but not done anything to prepare for it. My brain kept mixing up Vance with (I think) Dan Snow, who…

    The JD Vance dinner
  • Too many liberals have a tendency to confuse their priorities between legalism and justice, as the latest internal Lib Dem row about transgender representation illusatrates

    “Trans quotas” and why people hate liberals