The smartphone plague is ruining sex
A25
When the representation of sex stands in opposition to sex itself.
Month: May 2020
Fascism is here – and most people love it
A24
This was written a year before the 2020 Covid-19 crackdown when (to take Britain as our example) the authorities started murdering the elderly in care homes, halted most hospital surgery indefinitely, put most of the population under conditions close to house arrest, and began whipping up a nationalistic frenzy of clapping for the government every Thursday evening.
Wacky songs referencing England’s former and current capital cities
A23
The first is more original and off the wall, but there’s something weirdly ambiguous about the quality of fake in the second.
“Muting” on the internet: a new development, leading where?
A22
It happens on various “social sites”: “muting”, or “shadowbanning”. This insidious way to condition compliance is deeply of its time.
Sarcasm-itis – in which cultures have you encountered it?
A21
They run Britain as if it were the British Empire: an observation that’s often made but is no less true for it.
A vegan revolution?:
A20
It’s about time. C’mon, let’s continue evolving.
Nina Simone sings “The Black Freighter”
A19
Words are by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill, both from the Threepenny Opera (1928).
Some music by three singers from South Wales – two with dads who were coalminers and a third who herself was a steelworker
A18
What do the singers Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler and the late actor Richard Burton all have in common?
I despise cheating tradesmen
A17
“So I ring round some carpenters. One of them comes to look at the job (…)“
“Select all images with a bus”
A16
When grownups are treated like toddlers.