A few of our favourite things…
THE “FAITH” OF CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Was the world’s most famous atheist on the verge of converting to Christianity on his deathbed? No, of course he bloody wasn’t…. link
“A LOT OF BEING A FALKLAND ISLANDER HAD TO DO WITH BEING POOR”: How Falklanders are coping with the extraordinary economic transformation of their islands…. link
“IF A THING IS REALLY WORTH DOING, IT’S WORTH DOING BADLY”: Ian McKewan on the unparalleled follies of Brexit…. link
“IF THIS MAN IS NOT UNELECTABLE, THE CENTRISTS’ ENTIRE LIVES HAD BEEN A LIE”: David Graeber on the real motivations behind the character assassination of Jeremy Corbyn…. link
“HIS FLAMBOYANTLY BUNGLED REAL-ESTATE PROJECTS, TABLOID HIJINKS, MANIC CLUB-HOPPING, FLAGRANT MOB ASSOCIATIONS, CRUEL WIFE-DUMPING…” Donald Trump’s inexplicable rise…. link
I AM RONNIE PICKERING: Sometimes a dickhead's just a dickhead…. link
“DO NOT ENGAGE”: How writers are ruined by cyberpsychopaths…. link
“OBSCURITY CREATES AN AURA OF IMPORTANCE”: Martha Nussbaum’s exhilarating evisceration of obscurantist postmodern mystagogue Judith Butler…. link
“HISTORY IS POWER”: Ian Johnson on the publication of a new set of secret documents recording a meeting of Party elders after the Tiananmen Square massacre…. link
ROCKET RONNIE: The greatest five minutes of snooker of all time…. link
“HIS BODY SHOULD HAVE BEEN BURNED IN A TRASH BIN”: Hunter S. Thompson’s obituary of Richard Milhous Nixon…. link
THE CIA’S SECRET WAR IN TIBET: The astonishing tale of 2,000 U.S. trained Tibetans who came close to toppling the famine-hit People’s Republic…. link
PRISONER OF ITS PAST: Orville Schell on China’s victimisation complex…. link
THE CASE AGAINST HOLLYWOOD: Contemporary Hollywood has evolved a peculiar culture that is set up to make junk, says John H. Richardson…. link
“SIMPLE-MINDED AND SENSATIONALIST”: Robert Hughes on Damien Hirst and the idiocies of the contemporary art world…. link