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Aug 8, 2025
In the famous comic-strip Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin forms a club called “Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS” (G.R.O.S.S.), sole members Calvin and Hobbes, whose entire purpose...
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Jun 11, 2025
I spent last week between the two coasts of America. Five years on from the 2020 Summer of Floyd, murals, flags, t-shirts, and other signs of loyalty swore allegiance everywhere to...
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May 14, 2025
In Munich, in the fractured aftermath of the First World War, an impoverished writer published what would become one of the most famous works of cultural analysis of the 20th...
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May 5, 2025
This week in silly internet discourse, the singer Olly Murs got fit, and posted Before and After shots. Then the psychologist William Costello posted the shots,...
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Mar 26, 2025
A couple of years ago, out running on a rural track some distance from houses or paved road, I met a group of twentysomething men running the other way. As we passed, nothing...