Opinion

When Standing Alone Costs a Fortune: The Thomas Massie Paradox Nobody’s Talking About Right, so here’s the thing that’s been doing my head in lately—and I don’t say this lightly—but Thomas Massie, this Kentucky congressman who’s about as popular at Republican gatherings as a vegan at a butcher’s convention, has accidentally stumbled onto something genuinely important while being absolutely barking mad about it. Let me explain, because this story is bonkers in ways that deserve unpacking. ...

Why Google News Is Turning Us All Into Anxious Goldfish With Attention Spans of a Gnat Right, let’s have it out, shall we? I’m sitting here scrolling through Google News like some sort of digital archaeologist, digging through layers of catastrophe, celebrity gossip, and what appears to be seventeen different articles about a badger that got stuck in a Tesco, and I’ve had a proper realization: we’ve broken something fundamental about how humans are supposed to consume information, and nobody’s even pretending to fix it anymore. ...

Trump’s China Trip: The Art of the Spectacular Stalemate Right, let’s have a proper chat about this whole Trump-in-China business, shall we? Because what we’ve got here is genuinely fascinating—not in the “thrilling blockbuster” way, but in the “watching two chess players agree to call it a draw while pretending they’ve won” way. And mate, that’s actually more interesting than most people realize. So Trump’s back from Beijing with what the papers are calling “stability.” Now, I’ll be honest—when I first read that headline, I thought someone had accidentally left their thesaurus on the keyboard. “Stability” is what you get when you’re stuck on the M25 at rush hour: nobody’s going anywhere, but at least nobody’s crashing into anyone else. Is that really what we’re celebrating? Apparently, yes. And here’s the thing—it might actually be the most sensible outcome anyone could’ve hoped for. ...