Katherine Dee
Katherine Dee is a writer at defaultfriend.substack.com
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
A hidden horror
Rakib’s Britain: Domestic abuse is happening behind closed doors — and within closed cultures
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
Labour’s lost cause
Despite recent successes, the party is still leaving working class voters behind
Extinction Rebellion, handmaiden of technocracy
There’s nothing natural about the environmentalism of modern eco activists
The religion of self-worship
Rowan Williams calls it a “sacred journey” — but trans ideology is a new faith altogether
Should we take Kingsley Amis more seriously as a poet?
The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse
Narcisssism and the naked arts graduate
This call for an overhaul of the sex industry is self-indulgent and short-sighted
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too