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Trolling Tragedies (or Asking Questions)
Written June 2026 This week marked the two-year anniversary of the curious case of Jay Slater, the British teenager who allegedly fell to his death while on holiday in Tenerife. To recap, after being reported missing by a friend, Jay’s body was allegedly found in a ravine a month later, the 19-year-old seemingly having suffered a catastrophic head injury from the fall. The case attracted huge press attention, as well as a considerable amount of speculation by “online ghouls”.
Jun 207 min read


Truth and Trust
Written June 2026 The 1969 “moon landings” have long been my benchmark, perhaps slightly arrogantly, for ascertaining the depth of a person’s perception skills. I have been a moon landing denier from a young age, and it has always struck me as unfathomable that anyone could believe not least the blatant fakery of the footage from “the moon”, but also the inability of the authorities to explain the inexplicable. The landline telephone call from the White House to the moon shou
Jun 116 min read


Pure and Unadulterated Lies
Written April 2026 In the heady days of my late teens, I was a college student enjoying the folly of youth, which meant putting the minimum of effort into the incredibly dull course I was studying during the week (admittedly ditching a few lectures to play pool and drink cider in the local) and looking forward to the weekends, which were whiled away with friends at pubs and clubs. We also enjoyed raves of the kind that only 1990s kids will remember, sometimes in an abandoned
Apr 2617 min read


Crisis or Carry On?
Written March 2026 For those of us who have long been through the looking glass, everyday life as presented to us by the production studios they call newsrooms is, quite obviously, bullshit. The harder the BBC try to convince us that a man called Christan Guy works at the Centre for Social Justice, and that Dr. Pam Graves is an Archaeologist, and that Phil McCann was the only reporter available to report on the countrywide petrol shortage, and that Paul Twocock works for Ston
Mar 246 min read
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