The Passport Lottery (Or: Why I Refuse to Play)
I was standing in Heathrow Terminal 5 when it properly hit me. Not the mild inconvenience of a delayed flight or the soul-crushing boredom of airport retail. No, this was…
Freedom of speech
The Slow-Motion Avalanche
Living in Late-Stage Capitalism There’s this moment that keeps happening to me, and I suspect it happens to you too. You’re scrolling through your phone…let’s be honest, you’re always scrolling…
The Grand Illusion: Why 2026 Won’t Save You
(And What Might) Christmas is coming. The goose is getting fat, as the song goes, though mostly it’s us getting fat on mince pies and existential dread. The fairy lights…
The Great X-Files: How a €120 Million Fine Became the EU’s Most Expensive Own Goal
Right, so let me get this straight. The European Union, in all its bureaucratic wisdom, decided to fine Elon Musk’s X platform €120 million for… checks notes… misleading blue checkmark…
The Theatre Has Gone Dark
What We Talk About When We Talk About Free Speech Or: how both sides learnt to stop worrying and love censorship when it suited them There’s a Kierkegaard quote that’s…
When the Leader of the Free World Calls a Woman “Piggy”
Right, so let me give you the context…but also, let me be honest about where I’m coming from. I’m British. I watch all of this from across the pond, which…
The Bastard Truth: On Freedom, Filth, and the Power of the Unpolished Word
There’s a photograph somewhere…probably lost now, buried under decades of shit and cigarette ash…of Charles Bukowski sitting at his typewriter, beer in hand, face like a road map of bad…
The New World Order: A Love Letter to Humanity’s Favourite Global Soap Opera
Somewhere out there… probably in a mahogany-panelled room lit by a single villainous lamp… a shadowy figure whispers: “Send out the lizard-people… it is time.” Or at least, that’s how…
The Great Education Panic
A Global Tour of How We’re All Failing Our Children (Differently) There’s something deliciously democratic about the way every developed nation on Earth has simultaneously decided that its education system…
The Gluttony Season
On Christmas, Capitalism, and the Violence of Plenty Every December, we perform a ritual so absurd that if you described it to someone from another planet, they’d assume you were…