Britain’s Got Talent
Ofcom is a menace to our freedom of speech
It is high time we liberated our airwaves
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
