Archive – Page 2 – Andrew Orlowski

Let them eat bugs: on meat and the English class system

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Andrew Orlowski

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30 December 2021

Meat has never been so popular, nor as demonised by high status opinion. Here I examine the dubious claims that giving up meat helps the planet, and the elites fetish for synthetic meat and even insects. A long read, at Spiked.… Read More

Columns

The unquenchable greed of Wikipedia

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Andrew Orlowski

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20 December 2021

At Christmas, charities launch their most emotive appeals. After almost two years of seeing their fundraising crippled by lockdowns and social distancing, they are more needy than ever. But I would think carefully before responding to one particularly aggressive annual solicitation.… Read More

Columns

Facebook’s metaverse megalomania reflects a revulsion for humanity

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Andrew Orlowski

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24 October 2021

“Divine task! Immortal mission!” enthused one excited American politician in 1846. William Gilpin was promoting a doctrine that became known as Manifest Destiny – the idea that Americans were both divinely chosen and uniquely equipped to conquer new territory, and should do so without delay. Urged on by exhortations “to animate the many hundred millions…

Columns

Is Learning to Code fit for purpose?

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Andrew Orlowski

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9 August 2021

Employers looking to hire software developers have noticed something very strange filling up their inboxes recently. Aidan Fitzpatrick, founder of one of London’s genuine technology successes Reincubate, a two times winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise, spotted it a few weeks ago. It was a new kind of job applicant.… Read More

Columns

Inflation will burst this tech bubble – and good riddance to its New Age cranks

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Andrew Orlowski

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24 June 2021

In the early 1980s the radical German musician Blixa Bargeld was being interviewed for TV in his squat in West Berlin, yards from the Berlin Wall. “Have you been to the other side?,” asked the interviewer. “No,” replied Bargeld, his glazed eyes beginning to rotate in opposite directions. “But I have been to… The Other…

Columns

David Cameron’s tech utopia

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Andrew Orlowski

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2 June 2021

It was a confident David Willetts who addressed a meeting of like-minded Conservatives, only hours after the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.… Read More