What’s your definition of bravery? Rushing into a burning building to save a sizzling baby? Holding off an entire platoon of soldiers from capturing your lonely position single-handed? Or sending out “intimate” images of yourself to an online sex blackmailer, then passing on the private ...
Growing up, I was genuinely obsessed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazis. If I ever found myself daydreaming in class, I would doodle swastikas and cartoon drawings of Hitler’s head all over my pencil case and schoolbooks. To look at them, you would have been forgiven for thinking I was a neo-Nazi ...
Did you eat a lot of chocolate for Easter last weekend? If so, did your choice of which particular color of candy egg to swallow say something deeply significant about you as a person? Personally, I tend to prefer white chocolate to ordinary brown milk chocolate, and I certainly prefer the latter ...
In this Year of Our Lord 2024, it is now becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real news stories from the fake-news spoofs. I recently saw a story with the headline “Gay Jewish man claims lesbian couple ditched him as a sperm donor because of war in Gaza,” which touched on so many ...
What even is “mental health” these days? Apparently, it is now best defined as a teenage child turning up to school dressed as a giraffe. You may be aware of the lamentable phenomenon of “furries,” those clearly disturbed individuals who self-identify as animals. A typical example would be ...
Walking around my rapidly crumbling hometown, I have recently begun noticing a series of stickers displayed prominently upon lampposts, walls, and bus stops, depicting a large golden cannabis leaf and QR code smartphone users can scan to gain easy access to their friendly local neighborhood drug ...
February was annual Homo History Month here in the U.K. To do his own bit for the camp cause, London Mayor Sadiq Khan kindly reached into local taxpayers’ pockets (never his own) to blow several million pounds on renaming one of the London Overground lines after some obscure local AIDS hospital ...
Time was, you had to make a real effort to contact the ghost of Adolf Hitler. Konstantin Raudive was a Latvian doctor and pioneer of the “Electronic Voice Phenomenon” (EVP), the strange but harmless hobby of setting tape recorders going, asking questions out loud, then replaying the tapes to ...
I don’t know about you, but whenever I find myself looking at a sublime old landscape painting, like those of JMW Turner or Samuel Palmer, I often find myself thinking: “Hmm. Well, it’s quite good, but what this canvas really needs is the image of a big random black man bouncing about in it ...
About twenty years ago I made a visit to my favorite local museum to see what had been made of it following a very substantial renovation. I was hoping to discover some exciting new additions to the old exhibits on display, drawn from the previously closed cabinets of its dusty old basement ...
