Is journalism a trade, in the sense of something one learns as an apprentice, and works at until old age? The only specific skill, shorthand, that journalists are supposed to need has become of even less importance since the advent of tape recorders. It is a trade in the sense of “know the tricks of [...]

It is, I believe, one of the few dangerous forms of eccentricity, a highly contagious mania, to be precise, of the rampant social variety! In your friend’s case, we may not yet be dealing with out-and-out insanity . . . No . . . Maybe his trouble is only exaggerated conviction . . . But [...]

‘The 21st Century, with its meaningless logos and ironic veneration of tyrants’–Peep Show S04E01 (Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain)