Fred Skulthorp

Fred Skulthorp is an occasional writer. He tweets at @skulthorp

“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism

The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion

Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings

The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny

Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon

TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news

The case for dramatising every national scandal 

We must resist the siren songs of Bake Off and Boaty McBoatface

Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths

James O’Brien has become a part of what he loathes