How to Shorten Your Life

Dodging the nursing home is my lifetime ambition.

Aug 19 • Christopher Gage

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Teething Problems

Since when did buying a coffee change the world?

Aug 7 • Christopher Gage

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Therapy English and its Malcontents

What is Therapy English and why must we mock it to death?

Aug 5 • Christopher Gage

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Social Contract

The Roman solution to our social media crisis.

Aug 4 • Christopher Gage

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July 2026

Notes from the Night Bus

Kakistocracy (n) government by the worst, the least competent, the least scrupulous

Jul 15 • Christopher Gage

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June 2026

The Sad Death of Tabloid English

What we lost when we swapped busty babes for trauma narratives

Jun 27 • Christopher Gage

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Boring Ourselves to Death

A brief foray into the weird world of optimisation...

Jun 22 • Christopher Gage

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May 2026

Civilised Witchcraft

Positive affirmations are bullshit.

May 25 • Christopher Gage

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Textbook Folly

The sensible Swedes have struck a mortal blow against the post-literate future.

May 10 • Christopher Gage

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April 2026

Rites of Passage

How to save teenaged boys from themselves.

Apr 23 • Christopher Gage

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May Contain Nuts

Therapy-speak and its discontents |In praise of elitism | The fantastic folly of privatised water |

Apr 4 • Christopher Gage

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The Love Committee

All is unfair in love and war.

Apr 2 • Christopher Gage

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