“Click-clack goes the kitchen bin flap and it’s as if some definitive barrier has fallen into place in our minds and we forget — we forget about our rubbish. You may be like me, and have a dedicated recycling bin in your kitchen as well, in which case where you deposit your detritus delivers you either a little positive stroke — see how virtuous I am, carefully discarding this cardboard packaging — or a tiny demerit: perhaps I should have exhaustively washed out that yoghurt pot, so as to avoid it going up in smoke?
On prejudices
Confirmation bias and its role in culture and society.
On driving too fast
In this week’s Multicultural Man column, Will writes about his second speed-awareness course, this time a virtual experience.
A Posthumous Shock: How everything became trauma
A long essay in Harper’s Magazine argues that the symptoms we now call PTSD are only an extreme version of a distinctively modern consciousness.
NEW: Listen to Harper’s Magazine web editor Violet Lucca talking to Will about his essay:
The Great British Bake Off
On the politics behind the nation’s beloved baking show.
A Point of View: Car hatred
Will’s blistering attack on cars and their drivers, who are “told they have the ability to go anywhere when the truth is they’re shackled to a grotesque and Sisyphean go-round: they have to make the money, to pay for the car, to sit in the traffic jam, to make the money to pay for the car” for A Point of View on Radio 4.
On Daniel Craig
This week’s Multicultural Man column considers the James Bond actor’s comments on his fondness of gay bars.
On slangish
Lincoln Book Festival
Will is going to be talking to Dr Guy Mankowski about his latest book, Will, and ‘whether it captures the diversity of his life or, as suggested in the Daily Telegraph, is “Just another Selfian character, subject to absolute authorial control, the fragmented derangement of his youth woven into an intricate and coherent whole by the mature author”‘ at the Lincoln Book Festival on 14 October at 6.30pm. Tickets cost £10 and can be bought here.
On Extinction Rebellion and royalty
Two recent New European columns: the first on Extinction Rebellion; the second on royalty.
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