In Which I Agree With the Guardian
Yes. Really. What insults my soul,” Zadie Smith has written, “is the idea… that we can and should write only about people who are fundamentally ‘like’ us: […]
cultural appropriation
Oh, Fer Gawd’s Sake…
This world has gone to the dogs, really it has. Ikea has apologised after selling a jerk chicken and rice and peas dish cooked with the wrong […]
A Subversive Act
It was another writer – George Orwell – who made that statement about speaking the truth being a subversive act. Seems Lionel Shriver is picking […]
Pompous Twat
Seriously? British actor Ed Skrein has pulled out of a role in the upcoming Hellboy reboot after a backlash because he was cast as a […]
Art for Art’s Sake
Oh, my. Apparently, we white honkies cannot write about black people in our stories. Bestseller Anthony Horowitz was “warned off” including a black character in […]
Maybe There is Hope
The Groan on identity politics. Identity politics doesn’t deserve Lionel Shriver’s contempt, but it can be limiting Au contraire, contempt is precisely what it deserves, in […]
We Own Our Bodies
The absurdity that is cultural appropriation is, like the anti-smoking crusade before it, designed to create fissures in human relationships. It encourages bullying and harassment […]