Will Self
22 May 2023
Martin Amis and the art of writing
Martin Amis once confided his belief that his literary legacy would not last long. It was one of the rare occasions that he was wrong
Read the full article18 May 2023
My obsession with Adrian Chiles’ column
I’d like to enjoy his Guardian writings, but there’s one small thing getting in the way
Read the full article17 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On royal reading
Having waited his entire life for this coronation service, and having apparently played a central role in devising it, the King was nonetheless unable to memorise his own lines
Read the full article10 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On the rise of AI
The pipe dream that the genie of AI is going to be thrust back in the bottle is just that
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Multicultural Man: On literacy
Forget the headlines. Children's reading comprehension is on the decline, and their books are to blame
Read the full article26 April 2023
Multicultural Man: On bigotry
My inexplicable inability to call out the bigotry of the far right during an appearance on Question Time nearly a decade ago still rankles to this day
Read the full article19 April 2023
Multicultural Man: On London
I’ve decided to take up the challenge that this babel of boroughs represents, and over the next few months I intend to visit the most diverse regions of the capital
Read the full article13 April 2023
Multicultural Man: On ageing
The satirical concept of immortal but increasingly senile people in Gulliver’s Travels highlights the societal impact of an ageing population
Read the full article30 March 2023
Multicultural Man: On critics
In the literary snake pit, writers and critics tend to either suck up to one another frantically, or bite down hard so as to inject their venom yet deeper
Read the full article23 March 2023
Multicultural Man: On eccentrics
A local modern-day bard, serenading commuters and beautifying the neighbourhood, is easily the best eccentric street person I’ve ever known
Read the full article16 March 2023
Multicultural man: On Paris tourists
The sight of tracksuit-wearing Brits entering one of the most beautiful brasseries on the Left Bank left me gasping and prostrated
Read the full article09 March 2023
Multicultural Man: On traffic
The case of a pedestrian jailed for causing the death of a cyclist highlights the ongoing power struggle on the pavements of urban Britain
Read the full article02 March 2023
Multicultural Man: On psychosis
Exploring the connection between schizophrenia and emerging technologies
Read the full article23 February 2023
Multicultural Man: On a ‘new’ house
The tendency in the collective British psyche towards uchronia – a time that never was – rather than utopia, should gladden the King’s heart, since his entire raison d’être is the preservation of crumbling institutions
Read the full article16 February 2023
Multicultural Man: On church
A congregation that’s 100% anything when it comes to ethnicity hardly implies diversity, let alone multiculturalism
Read the full article09 February 2023
Out of their minds
Prince Harry and his wife may be absurd, but the reaction to his book shows almost everything he says about his family, and the press, is true
Read the full article09 February 2023
Multicultural Man: On ChatGPT
Some are worried the new AI open resource will render writing assignments redundant. Our writer's interaction would suggest not
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Multicultural Man: On neighbours
A house move causes our writer to ruminate on the problem of neighbourly relations
Read the full article26 January 2023
Multicultural Man: On dogs
We are deluded if we believe ourselves to be dogs' masters and mistresses
Read the full article19 January 2023
Multicultural Man: On beer
During 20 beer-free years a coldness crept throughout the collective British cellar – like some especially mundane effect – lacquering casks and bottles with condensation
Read the full article12 January 2023
Multicultural Man: On Britain v France
Despite British perfidy over the protocol, and the reneging of basic humanitarian values when it comes to migration, the French seem more bemused than belligerent
Read the full article05 January 2023
Multicultural Man: On Vivienne Westwood
There’s no doubt that she knew how to make clothes in every sense – but the idea that she represented a spirit of rebelliousness is frankly ridiculous
Read the full article22 December 2022
Multicultural Man: On charity shops
Charity shops are for the most part either full of dismal tat; or, are like Oxfam’s specialist bookshops: stocked with the crème of the haute bourgeoisie’s discarded… crème
Read the full article22 December 2022
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the fake
Jacob Rees-Mogg isn’t what he seems
Read the full article15 December 2022
Multicultural Man: On ‘goblin mode’
A backlash against looking perfect on social media has led to “goblin mode” becoming the word of the year
Read the full article08 December 2022
Multicultural Man: On stereotypes
Reading the British press in the last few weeks and months, you get the impression there are only two kinds of migrants landing on these shores
Read the full article01 December 2022
Multicultural Man: On streetlamps
You don’t need to be some sort of Victoriana re-enactment freak in order to appreciate the beauty of gas lamps
Read the full article24 November 2022
Multicultural Man: On race and identity
The current and curious inversions of racial prejudice that have resulted in people pretending to be black or brown mirror those of snobbery that accompanied the cultural revolutions of my youth
Read the full article24 November 2022
Succumbing to hideous transformation
On the eve of a new translation of the author’s diaries, the question arises, is the Kafkaesque now just completely normal?
Read the full article17 November 2022
Multicultural Man: On India
Britain is no longer fit for purpose. It should voluntarily become a colony of India
Read the full article10 November 2022
Multicultural Man: On migrants
For those of the Brexit persuasion, the East Europeans who managed to get in should be called Benefits Vultures. They are as far from this as imaginable
Read the full article03 November 2022
Multicultural Man: On racism and The Great British Bake Off
Empires rise and fall, and yet Bake Off remains on our screens. Yet, across the pond commentators recently took aim at Mexico week
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