Helping you navigate the hell of interacting with other human beings — WhatsApp is just one of those things we have to put up with, like moneyed left-wing people and circumcised men. Part of the problem is it’s free, which means it’s ubiquitous but no one really values it. And as Sam “fisherthem” Smith is fond of reminding us, it’s polite to…

Why it’s pointless to pander to the Left, Right, or anyone else (but mostly the Left) — It’s hard being tribeless in a tribalized world. It’s hard being a thinker in a time when feelings rein supreme. Even acknowledging the latter, it’s hard speaking your heart when only certain feelings — those confined to a narrowly prescribed band of orthodoxy — will ever pass muster with the…

What happens when everyone wants to be a victim? We’re about to find out. — In the West we used to celebrate excellence, achievement and victory. Now we celebrate victimhood, grievance and participation trophies, and it seems everyone wants to get in on the action. Being American I tend to talk about things from the American perspective, obviously. But much of our cultural rot is…

A dramatic satire that needed to be told — Probably, each of us, after watching many feature films, has wondered: do vampires really exist or not? And, as a rule, we made sure with the answer that all these are inventions of the authors of fantastic works, and in real life vampires do not exist. Vampires definitely exist in…

Do Better. — If you’ve ever been on social media and seen a comment you got really excited about responding to like, “OH BOY! I’ve got him now!” And the next thing you write is, “that’s transphobic!”, and hit send like you just hit a walk off home run, I’m talking about you. …

Life is short. Expend it wisely. — Imagine you were handed the devastating news that you only had two weeks to live. What would you do with that time? Would you spend every moment of it in the cherished embrace of loved ones? Would you drown your sorrows in an assorted chemical haze? …

I made a mess of it so you don’t have to — Ever find yourself wondering how deeply mediocre or pathologically unpleasant people end up at the top? Not that every corporate bigwig falls into that category. Some of them are both! But let’s be fair. Even the nastiest organisations contain some exceptionally talented people — genuinely impressive, awe-inspiring, this is what…

More fear underway for 2023 — Author’s note: This article was written just as the latest Covid variant arrived right on time for 2023. ‘Experts’ say it’s so serious that a mysterious group of scientists dubbed it ‘Kraken,’ a sensational nickname for what has been described as the most “contagious strain of COVID-19 ever seen.” …

Did ancient people mistake spaceships for gods? Is it just a racist coverup? — There are a lot of mysteries about the ancient world. The ancient Egyptians built massive pyramids that are wonders of engineering, basically without any technology and not even much help from draft animals. The ancient Maya did the same and knew about five or six planets. …