Subject to Change
A tiny minority disfigures the media, our institutions, and everything else into a psychodrama.
Morning Routine
The world is full of actors pretending to be human.
Paper and Pencil
No, I don't want to download the app. The folly of technology has rendered life, and elections, a tragicomedy.
Soup and Sunflowers
Why are unspeakably middle-class kids throwing soup at paintings and glueing themselves to walls?
Notes from a Banana Republic Meritocracy
How is the mother of representative democracy writhing around on the kitchen linoleum, screaming about the demons hissing in the fridge?
Abolish Bad Art
In Great Britain, dissenting artists claim the emperor of modern art is naked. What took them so long?
Beyond Folly
The right side of history meets the right side of reality.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
A latter-day prophet predicted the triumph of trivia.
The Cost of Folly
The aftermath of lockdowns may be deadlier than COVID.
Bye Bye, Brexit
Soon, those millions who voted Leave will find out what they suspected all along: it’s a big club, and they ain’t in it.
The Problem With Kids Today
Sealed off from reality, the youth are terrified of themselves and of everything else.
Ugliness For Its Own Sake
According to the enlightened, babies are racist now.
A Brief History of Nutters
The aftermath of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial was an orgy of My Truth.
Sandal Wearers and Sex Maniacs
Within the pages of the Guardian, I habitually encounter a species of human being bearing no resemblance to those of my working-class roots.
The Logic of the Meat Grinder
The generation that did everything it was told to do is keen on burning down the very culture which sold them a lie.
How Therapy Culture Suffocates Us
The luxury problems of our ruling class are an insult to those facing real impositions.
Civilized Witchcraft
“Couples Therapy” is a perfect illustration of a culture amusing itself to death.
Meat and Marginalia
Welcome to the end of history where everything has progressed and nothing much has changed.
For Your Own Good
The urge to save humanity is always an urge to rule over humanity.
Raising Awareness of Ourselves
Has a culture so empty ever been so full of itself?