Will Self
17 March 2022
Multicultural Man: On useless relics
How a disastrously expensive baseball signing gave his name to a new form of aleatoric art
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Multicultural Man: On Bacon
With war under way, it is impossible to visit a new exhibition of Francis Bacon's work and not think about humans’ terrible vulnerability in the face of shot and shell
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Multicultural Man: On Russian literature
Even a cursory reading of the Russians would have explained to many in the West why Putin was going to invade Ukraine, says WILL SELF
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Multicultural Man: On Kyiv
A trip to the Ukrainian capital a decade ago left WILL SELF grappling with his ignorance
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Multicultural Man: On cojones
WILL SELF on a Japanese cultural phenomenon which may have been an unlikely influence on Viz
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Multicultural Man: On prevention
WILL SELF was leery of the government's Prevent programme - until he took the training himself
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Multicultural Man: On space litter
The anticipated crash of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is humankind’s first act of celestial littering, says WILL SELF
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Multicultural Man: On antiquities
The traditionalists who decry the vandalisation of history actually have very little real appetite for that history, says WILL SELF
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Multicultural Man: On cannabis
The legalisation of cannabis in all its forms is almost here – all done bar the shouting, says WILL SELF
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Mark Francois’ Spartan Victory is illiteracy on parade
They shared a famous TV Brexit moment. When Mark Francois wrote a book, there was only one person who could review it...
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Multicultural Man: On Keith Floyd
WILL SELF on an era when eating meat seemed as blameless as the means employed to obtain it
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Multicultural Man: On betrayal
WILL SELF on the British government's betrayal of Afghanistan
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Multicultural man: On Eric Zemmour
WILL SELF on the French far-right politician who emerged from a Jewish background.
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Multicultural Man: On names
WILL SELF on the naming of the Omicron variant.
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Multicultural Man: In hospital
WILL SELF on his recent stay St Thomas’ Hospital and how it made him realise that the NHS mirrors the strange state of the nation.
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Multicultural Man: On prejudices
WILL SELF on confirmation bias and its role in culture and society.
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Multicultural Man: On driving too fast
WILL SELF on attending a speed awareness course for the second time.
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Multicultural Man: On The Great British Bake Off
WILL SELF on the politics behind the nation's beloved baking show.
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Multicultural Man: On No Time to Die
WILL SELF on the latest production of the James Bond franchise.
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Multicultural Man: On listening to public protest
WILL SELF on the culture of public dissent.
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Multicultural Man: On Daniel Craig
WILL SELF on the James Bond actor's comments on his fondness of gay bars
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Multicultural Man: On slangish
WILL SELF on slang as a form of communication and its standing in the education system
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Multicultural Man: On learning from literature
WILL SELF on educating ourselves from past and present literature
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Multicultural Man: On trash TV
WILL SELF on reality TV programmes that are so bad, they're good
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Multicultural Man: On Jamaican music
WILL SELF on the reggae culture and music from his youth, and finding it in Cornwall.
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Multicultural Man: On royalty
WILL SELF on his encounter with a thespian from The Windsors: Endgame and why he finds the real life Windsor's popularity baffling
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Multicultural Man: On Extinction Rebellion
WILL SELF on the culture of protests and the global environmental movement
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Multicultural Man: On churchgoing
WILL SELF on being welcomed in church and religious identity
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Multicultural Man: On an art house
WILL SELF on his visit Stephen Wright’s House of Dreams and its extraordinary insider-outsider artwork
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Multicultural Man: On pub culture
Will Self on the sobering experience of his brother-in-law's wake in the Hand in Hand on Brixton hill
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Multicultural Man: On circumcision and Jewish identity
Will Self on a Jewish ritual, and two new TV shows that perpetuate the religion's stereotypes
Read the full article27 July 2021
Will Self meets the Sikhs of Gravesend
Will Self goes to Gravesend and finds out what drew Sikhs there in the days when newspapers were king
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