This year threw the Oxford English Dictionary into fits when it came to naming their word of the year. Ultimately, they changed the rules, renamed it Word of an Unprecedented Year, and selected a whole bunch of words and phrases to choose a winner from. And then decided they simply couldn’t choose one single word … Continue reading Word of the Year
Trump supporters have a problem. Some of them, anyway. The ones who’ve spent more than four years trying to laugh off the suggestion that Trump is, at heart, a fascist. What do they do now? Admit what has been blatantly obvious to everyone else the whole time? Or just go full fascist themselves, because it’s … Continue reading Fascism in America
One has watched the best bits of the presidential debate. Trump v Biden. Rancour v Reason. Despotism v Decency. Did a winner emerge? It was such a shoddy debate, I’m not sure that there was a winner, per se. But there was a clear loser. I say this on the assumption that you use the … Continue reading The Debate
Rise of ChinaOn Saturday, most of England largely reopens. Social distancing will effectively be abandoned. We step back into an unfamiliar, uncertain world. And we enter the moment of peak uncertainty. Most people don’t like uncertainty. There’s no such thing as a risk free world, so we must deal with uncertainty. But we don’t like … Continue reading
The Mexile 