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Hello, Obligatory shilling. This month I wrote for my Substack subscribers about wrongness and responsibility, fatigue and rhetoric, China and misinformation, Sam Bankman-Fried and Shakespeare, the Iraq War and justification, wokeness and problematising
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To quote Barack Obama — let me be clear. I don’t care about Brandon Sanderson. I don’t care about Jason Kehe. I don’t care about Wired. I don’t care…
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One of Britain’s most popular musical artists is an elfin Londoner who raps under the name “Central Cee”. His cheesy songs go wild on TikTok for their…
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There’s been a lot of debate about defining the term “woke” since the American commentator Bethany Mandel heroically failed to do so on TV. I think a…
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The American reporter and commentator Eli Lake has written an article defending the invasion of Iraq — which began twenty years ago. It’s a tough job …
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Samuel Bankman-Fried. Trader. Entrepreneur. Alleged criminal. Art critic. Hang on — what? Yes, for some time the head of the doomed crypto-currency…
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A while ago a tweet passed across my feed from an account called “Songpinganq”. It was about Chinese restaurants selling a meal that featured a luckless…
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I am tired, y’all. Why? Well, a lot of reasons. I have a throat infection. My dog has some kind of stomach problem. Our bathroom is being renovated and…
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