In one episode of the 80s comedy The Young Ones, the four housemates discover oil in the basement of their London student house. This leads Mike and Vyvyan to mount…
“Usually they say, ‘he’s a horrible dictator-type person … I’m a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator!” — DonaldTrump, World Economic Forum, Davos, 21 January 2026 If Trump wants…
It is an irony that the politician so keen on introducing digital identity cards has no identity of his own. It is this absence of identity that is impelling him…
Let’s be clear: the slow death of humanity through mass infertility is a good thing. This nightmare vision of SF and dystopian literature is, to the well-organised mind, a dream…
It’s 2025, and the United States — or what’s left of it — has entered its latest, gaudiest phase. President Trump (47, if you’re keeping score) sits in the Oval…
Apparently, some people are boycotting Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads this week for reasons of Suckerberg zucking up to the Big Orange One. Some people are just leaving those platforms…
And Psipook’s Smear of the Year is … Time has its Person of the Year thing. Psipook has its Smear of the Year. Why should the corporates monopolise the validations?…
‘It’s that time of year again,’ says Psipook supremo, Psilocybe P Pook. The comment was recorded by faithful scribes and distributed exclusively all over the world and is available as…
When ‘fascist’ stops being a joke and why the word matters again
In one episode of the 80s comedy The Young Ones, the four housemates discover oil in the basement of their London student house. This leads Mike and Vyvyan to mount…
The world in union sings praises to the ambitions of Donald Trump
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Keir Starmer — Identity Man (Sir)
It is an irony that the politician so keen on introducing digital identity cards has no identity of his own. It is this absence of identity that is impelling him…
Humanity’s all shagged out (and I feel fine)
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If you are innocent, you have everything to fear
I spy with my little eye something beginning with you! I was sitting in the bath the other night when I was startled to see a periscope rise out of…
From Reagan to Trump 2.0: Billionaires astride the smoking remains of reality is a boringly predictable outcome
It’s 2025, and the United States — or what’s left of it — has entered its latest, gaudiest phase. President Trump (47, if you’re keeping score) sits in the Oval…
We need to talk about Adrian Chiles. But do we really have to?
We need to talk about that Adrian Chiles. Do we have to? I don’t want to. I don’t want to either, so let’s make it quick. Thing is, Adrian has…
Orange is the new fascist black
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And Psipook’s Smear of the Year is … Time has its Person of the Year thing. Psipook has its Smear of the Year. Why should the corporates monopolise the validations?…
Zeitgeist’s greetings to one and all!
‘It’s that time of year again,’ says Psipook supremo, Psilocybe P Pook. The comment was recorded by faithful scribes and distributed exclusively all over the world and is available as…