Arts & Culture: Ideas

How the left lost its language

The global crisis exposed the intellectual hollowness of our politics. Despite signs of renewal, there’s still a long way to go.

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Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Newspeak’s foggy legacy is all around us

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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

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Perspectives: Holger Czukay, musician, on Karlheinz Stockhausen

Beauty

Screen test

Video games dominate Britain’s entertainment industry, yet we lack the critical vocabulary to understand them properly

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Diary: Paul Johnson

Of all the popes I have known

Caught in the net

Whatever prophets of the net say, information for its own sake is not power. Power is power. The relentless gush of electronic information and invitations to offer feedback which now come our way can often obscure where real power lies

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Don’t sell me your dream

Far from liberating us, technology isolates us and makes us stupid. I want no part of your sterile, bloodless brave new world

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Rise of the geeks

A new class of specialists is analysing which websites you look at, what you buy in the supermarket, and how you behave at work. As we produce ever more digital data, the numerati’s influence can only grow