CultureThe Unseriousness of Ironic DetachmentOn the need for seriousness and what happens when we are controlled by cheap irony. The internet meme has a style all of its own, a style...
CinemaIs "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Missing Something?The film makes big claims and hints at even bigger ideas – but at the end of it all, is there any there there? Everything Everywhere All...
CultureOn Gratitude: A virtuous cycleOn Douglas Murray's defence of gratitude, how being grateful resists the poison of resentment, and the reciprocal nature of appreciating...
CinemaDoctor Not-So-Strange: The shallowness of the MCUHave the Marvel movies stopped being worth our time, and what does deserve our attention? As my wife and I emerged from a cinema into the...
BooksThe Loneliness of the Long Distance ReaderHow good reading brings us closer to others, and how efforts to personalise all the settings on our lives make us lonelier – and more...
Cinema"The Darjeeling Limited": In search of what's missingOn Wes Anderson's 2007 film, The Darjeeling Limited, and how absence is at the heart of its story – and often at the core of how we...
