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The baby was due a week ago and each day since we have awoken tense that it may appear and laid down to sleep disappointed that it hasn’t. The little…
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February 2023

Cooking oil has attracted the focus of public outrage this week after being purported to be deeply hydrophobic. In a seemingly innocuous video on egg…
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In pt. 1 we concluded that in order to comprehend reality, we must free ourselves from ideology. With minds unshackled, we will now focus on the three…
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January 2023

The stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro begins with two children and their father moving into a countryside house, while the mother is dying (/maybe…
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Can you predict the future? According to SuperForecasting, those equipped with the right mindset and techniques can do a reasonably good job. In fact I…
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This post takes a different tact to usual, and will be a slightly self-indulgent piece (ok so maybe not too different) looking at this newsletter’s…
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Most food writers out there would likely find a more appropriate post title for their first entry in 2023 (something with resolutions perhaps, or…
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July 2022

The idea was to go to Glastonbury this year and write a piece about the abundant and vacant meat consumption at the festival, something like this…
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June 2022

I’ve been thinking about death after reading an article adapted from The Case Against Death. It’s written by a teacher of philosophy from NYU, a certain…
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Excuse the tardiness of this (/last) week’s newsletter, I’ve been suffering from the most general of malaises and have found the idea of confronting the…
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May 2022

I have been caught ranting recently against the government’s new requirement that large restaurants, cafes and takeaways are required to list the number…
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April 2022

I woke up in the middle of the night last night and saw plastic bottles of milk lining ever-shifting aisles of supermarkets. The vision melted like soft…
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