Cartoons
The fascist state of Paw Patrol
There is no society or even commerce, just the relentless force of the police
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
How the Ukraine delusion may end
Biden might entertain peace to cut his losses and boost his election chances
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
