Slouching Towards My Substack Anniversary
The First Ten Months of Essays
Some Substackers have kicked off 2024 with a ‘Greatest Hits’ of their previous year’s posts. So, never one to miss out, I thought I’d do similar! It is an opportunity to give everyone - but especially more recent subscribers - a quick-reference flick-through of the last ten months of posts. (If necessary click “view entire message” to get full list.)
And an opportunity to thank everyone who has made Slouching Towards Bethlehem so much more successful than I could ever have hoped for at its launch in March 2023.
Some new, more warm-hearted trends in Feminist journalism.
How can we decide what (if anything) qualifies as great art in the vast archive of recorded popular music?
Does the quantity of human happiness actually expand… or is it more in the way of a self-levelling constant?
H L Mencken wondered if there was a such a thing as “love of ugliness”. Was he on to something?
Some men and women that the Unfairness/Victimhood Industry forgets to notice.
Britain’s great post-war leader, cleaving to what she - rightly or wrongly - believed to be essentially wholesome in the life of a nation.
A song I wrote for my daughters when small….that ended up in a children’s English textbook in India.
Thoughts inspired by Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women by Sunday Times war correspondent Christina Lamb.
About how tv schedules are awash with who-dunnit drama serials conforming to a formulaic scriptwriter’s politically correct tick-box:
Review of The Diversity Delusion: Heather Mac Donald’s devastatingly compelling expose of “how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture.”
University graduate elites groomed to such pitch-perfect self-righteousness that it would never even occur to them that they might be imposing their ‘pseudo-values’ on a public with little realistic means of democratic resistance.
Why has Englishness failed to garner its own version of the self-flattering national mythology of so many other nations?
A drama in which an intrepid band of government ministers gets sucked into The Blob.
Mencken