2016 was terrible — but not for the reasons you think

For billions of human beings, Brexit, Trump and dead celebrities are the least of their worries

Oxbridge is awful and should be shut down

Every now and then, the media will fuss about Oxbridge. Usually it’s in response to…

They don’t understand — liberals, the media, and the Corbyn surge

The centrist fundamentalists can’t compute Labour’s success, or grasp the extent of their own stupidity

Someone asked me what I thought of the Owen Jones thing so I wrote this

Might as well post it here too

Why the Left ignores the global poor

For all their compassion, left-wingers are silent on the most crushing injustice of all

Explaining Venezuela — Alejandro Velasco on The Dig

I Don’t Dumb Down: “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race” by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Radical Egalitarian Atheist Humanitarian Sour Old Puritans Anonymous

I Dumb Down: ‘The Segregation of Dissent’ by E.P. Thompson

Why Trump won (and why Farage won, and why people like them will keep winning)

A million hacks are taking to a million laptops to write about Trump — but the take-away message is simple.