The rise of white signaling
What is culture but an endless backlash against the backlash? Woke was a sustained war on whitey for his privilege…
Trump declares war on the podcast bros
The official rationale for closing the FBI investigation into Jeffrey Epstein stinks and President Trump must know it – even…
We’ll never know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, he did his sex crimes in private and no one who associated with him – much less visited his…
The Limitless Pendant is an uncool trip into the tech nerd future
The problem with the future is it is very obviously no longer being created by cool people. Instead, it belongs…
CNN can’t kill Tim Dillon
“I’ve been researching comedy,” CNN’s Elle Reeve announces grimly at the start of her hour-long interview with comedian Tim Dillon,…
Why the Tories must bring back Boris
The British people adore Boris Johnson. That is unarguable. It’s why he doesn’t lose elections. It is therefore very funny…
Elon Musk’s AI predictions should terrify us
How will AI destroy humanity? Will it simply go house to house in robot form, slaughtering us where it finds…
Man Utd fans – and Gary Neville – should stop moaning
What exactly is it that the Glazer family has done that makes Manchester United fans whine so endlessly? I ask…
The insufferable rise of the sportswriter bore
Can someone check on Guardian sportswriter Jonathan Liew? It would appear he is not taking events in the Middle East terribly well,…
I hope Mike Tyson teaches Jake Paul a lesson
Tedious narcissist blowhard Jake Paul will fight Mike Tyson on Saturday in a meaningless freakshow in Texas that will likely…
Will this end the ridiculous charade of males in women’s sports?
I’ve long liked to think that if I was a really big girl I would transition to compete in the…
A German managing the England team? It’s depressing
Hand back the Falklands. Why not? FedEx over the Elgin Marbles. What’s the point of any of it anymore? They…
There’ll never be another tennis hunk like Rafael Nadal
In the pantheon of all-time tennis hunks, Rafael Nadal sits at the apex. The hunkiest ever to do it. In…
The wonderful guilelessness of Rishi Sunak
Could Rishi Sunak’s emergence as this nation’s greatest gaffe machine since Prince Philip come in time to endear him to…
Voters won’t forget Sunak’s D-Day snub
It’s hard to think of anything Rishi Sunak could have done that would cause greater offence to the British sensibility.…
Football obviously has a doping problem
For an astonishing length of time the attitude of football authorities to the prospect of widespread doping at the sport’s…
Does tennis have a doping problem?
Is it more remarkable that Romanian two-time Grand Slam tennis champion Simona Halep took performance enhancing drugs, or that she was caught?…
Nigel Farage, NatWest, and the sinister rise of corporate ‘purpose’
The plot is thickening. If it turns out NatWest CEO Alison Rose was the source for BBC business editor Simon…
Is this the end of the road for Meghan?
Has there ever been a more brutally effective piece of social satire than the South Park episode that mocked Harry and Meghan?…
The Schofield saga has become an unedifying spectacle
In the mid-90s when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate I did work experience at the now defunct The Face magazine.…
Who could replace Gary Lineker on Match of the Day?
Just when you thought you couldn’t handle any more depressing news, Gary Lineker has started dropping hints that his days…
We’re finding out who really runs the BBC
The high-profile political activist Gary Lineker will not present Match of the Day tonight after he likened the rhetoric of the government to 1930s Germany.…
Is Facebook’s verification scheme a scam?
Is Facebook’s scheme, announced over the weekend, to encourage its three billion users to pay $12 (£10) a month to…
UFC boss Dana White can’t survive his wife-slapping scandal
Mike Tyson is said once to have claimed the best punch he’d ever thrown was one he landed on actress…
Embarrassment of riches
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