Barbara Speed is a technology and digital culture writer at the New Statesman and a staff writer at CityMetric. She tweets at @bspeed8.

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Sci-Tech
Meet the woman sending abortion drugs to Poland by drone
23 June 2015
Border patrol.
Sci-Tech
Gmail now lets you unsend emails
23 June 2015
Giving life a rewind button.
World Affairs
Watch: John Oliver on why the Confederate flag should come down, for good
22 June 2015
Bad flag.
Cultural Capital
Amazon to pay authors according to how many pages people read
22 June 2015
Pay-per-page.
Culture
Taylor Swift may have won her battle with Apple Music, but the streaming wars aren’t over
22 June 2015
Bad blood.
Sci-Tech
Has Edward Snowden changed the way we think about search engines?
18 June 2015
DuckDuckGo vs Google.
The Staggers
What does the Lib Dem membership surge mean for the struggling party?
17 June 2015
#LibDemFightback.
Twitter
Are you one of Twitter's millions of ghost users? This could be why
17 June 2015
A bird's eye view.
Sci-Tech
How emojis could make passcodes more secure
15 June 2015
Worth a thousand words?
The Staggers
Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn MP: “Ed Miliband could have carried on”
15 June 2015
Last-minute lefty.
Cultural Capital
Polly Vernon’s Hot Feminist attacks cartoonish, bra-burning caricatures of feminism
26 May 2015
Hot feminism.
Cultural Capital
Girlhood avoids easy answers in its portrayal of growing up in the Paris suburbs
12 May 2015
Tales from the banlieue.
The Staggers
We now have more black and Asian MPs than ever before
08 May 2015
But still not nearly enough.
The Staggers
How many female MPs do we have now?
08 May 2015
Still a long way off half.
The Staggers
George Galloway loses his seat in Bradford West to Labour's Naz Shah
08 May 2015
No more Respect.

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