Will Self
24 January 2024
Multicultural Man: On dresses
It would do men a lot of good to go out in a dress for a few days and feel the wind of change it occasions
Read the full article17 January 2024
Multicultural Man: On coal
I’m old enough to remember what life was like before the generality of houses and flats were centrally heated – and now I’m experiencing it again
Read the full article10 January 2024
Multicultural Man: On sherbet
The 1970s was an era as filthily culpable as any other and its only redeeming feature was the cheapness and availability of sherbet lemons
Read the full article02 January 2024
Multicultural Man: Oh, and I have cancer
The predicament of cancerous smokers is a bit like that of Brexit voters: we all did something fucking stupid, knowingly, and now we’re paying the price
Read the full article20 December 2023
Multicultural Man: On mosques
In a way, the Ahmadi feel like a very suburban, very pacific, rather twee and English sort of Muslim sect
Read the full article13 December 2023
Multicultural Man: On bread
This is how the world ends – not with a bang, but whimpering about “open” crumb by people with more time, less sense, and more money than they should
Read the full article06 December 2023
Multicultural Man: On the Bake Off
In terms of reflecting an idealised portrait of Britain, this year’s series has to have been, at best, troubling
Read the full article29 November 2023
Multicultural Man: On allotments
When I was a kid, allotments were a kind of cliche: strictly for old-mannish types to potter around in. Not any more
Read the full article22 November 2023
Multicultural Man: On heritage
Will greater and digitised access to our history result in a more enriched cultural future?
Read the full article15 November 2023
Multicultural Man: On tins
To hold an old tin – many of which have pleasingly haptic qualities – is to feel one’s own hands gloved by ancient skin
Read the full article08 November 2023
Multicultural Man: On Jehovah’s Witnesses
Why our columnist has taken to de-evangelising evangelists
Read the full article01 November 2023
Multicultural Man: On fake cops
The filming of a police drama provokes thoughts on significance
Read the full article18 October 2023
Multicultural Man: On Tom Cruise
Just as paintings once juxtaposed human skulls and fresh fruit to impress upon their viewers the transitoriness of life, so Mr Cruise has become a kind of walking vanitas
Read the full article11 October 2023
Multicultural Man: On progress
Here are my cultural highlights for the 2023 rentrée
Read the full article04 October 2023
Multicultural Man: On Hokusai
Putting up pictures in a new home leads to considerable pondering
Read the full article27 September 2023
Multicultural Man: On muses
That the author of the most celebrated text on education in the 18th century should also have been a deadbeat dad should not be a surprise
Read the full article20 September 2023
Multicultural Man: On rehab
Every institution has its own set of ideas and AA is no different
Read the full article13 September 2023
Multicultural Man: On booze in Paris
France is on a mission to ensure its capital is ready to host the 2024 Olympics – which means a clampdown on alcohol and its associated issues
Read the full article06 September 2023
Multicultural Man: On futurology
A City salad bar was predicted by this columnist 30 years ago
Read the full article30 August 2023
Multicultural Man: On yoga
There’s no one angrier and more uptight than a westerner who practices a philosophy based on bodily attunement and the renunciation of desire
Read the full article23 August 2023
Multicultural Man: On tenants
A viewing brings some shocking home truths about the state of the rental property market
Read the full article16 August 2023
Multicultural Man: On Suella Braverman
The home secretary seems intent on some sort of grotesque pogrom-as-payback
Read the full article02 August 2023
Multicultural Man: On Gregg Wallace
There is only one solution to the plethora of cookery programmes cluttering up the TV schedules, and that’s to eat Gregg Wallace
Read the full article26 July 2023
Multicultural Man: On skirts
There are two very good reasons why men should embrace skirt-wearing
Read the full article19 July 2023
Multicultural Man: On Barbie
Aqua were right: we’re all Barbie girls and we’re all living in a Barbie world
Read the full article12 July 2023
Multicultural Man: On the Russian soul
The likes of Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky were regarded by their contemporary readers with the awe now reserved for rock stars
Read the full article05 July 2023
Multicultural Man: On Paris
Riots in the capital stem from France's inability to deal with the long aftermath of the Algerian War
Read the full article21 June 2023
Multicultural Man: On clubs
No self-respecting person of any sex or gender should set foot inside London’s members’ clubs
Read the full article14 June 2023
Multicultural Man: On technology
The anxiety over artificial intelligence is a distraction from the real threat facing the planet
Read the full article07 June 2023
Multicultural Man: On early films
We want technology to be developed in a logical fashion because we want to believe we, ourselves, are logical problem-solvers rather than mere tinkerers
Read the full article31 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On chips
The simultaneous elevation of the chip into gastronomy, and its demotion, via pulverising and reconstitution into the soggy cardboard substratum of contemporary British poverty, marks its nadir
Read the full article24 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On Eurovision
The contest looks plausibly like an alternative governmental structure for our fissiparous yet self-loving continent
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