Will Self
30 August 2023
Multicultural Man: On yoga
There’s no one angrier and more uptight than a westerner who practices a philosophy based on bodily attunement and the renunciation of desire
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Multicultural Man: On tenants
A viewing brings some shocking home truths about the state of the rental property market
Read the full article16 August 2023
Multicultural Man: On Suella Braverman
The home secretary seems intent on some sort of grotesque pogrom-as-payback
Read the full article02 August 2023
Multicultural Man: On Gregg Wallace
There is only one solution to the plethora of cookery programmes cluttering up the TV schedules, and that’s to eat Gregg Wallace
Read the full article26 July 2023
Multicultural Man: On skirts
There are two very good reasons why men should embrace skirt-wearing
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Multicultural Man: On Barbie
Aqua were right: we’re all Barbie girls and we’re all living in a Barbie world
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Multicultural Man: On the Russian soul
The likes of Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky were regarded by their contemporary readers with the awe now reserved for rock stars
Read the full article05 July 2023
Multicultural Man: On Paris
Riots in the capital stem from France's inability to deal with the long aftermath of the Algerian War
Read the full article21 June 2023
Multicultural Man: On clubs
No self-respecting person of any sex or gender should set foot inside London’s members’ clubs
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Multicultural Man: On technology
The anxiety over artificial intelligence is a distraction from the real threat facing the planet
Read the full article07 June 2023
Multicultural Man: On early films
We want technology to be developed in a logical fashion because we want to believe we, ourselves, are logical problem-solvers rather than mere tinkerers
Read the full article31 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On chips
The simultaneous elevation of the chip into gastronomy, and its demotion, via pulverising and reconstitution into the soggy cardboard substratum of contemporary British poverty, marks its nadir
Read the full article24 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On Eurovision
The contest looks plausibly like an alternative governmental structure for our fissiparous yet self-loving continent
Read the full article22 May 2023
Martin Amis and the art of writing
Martin Amis once confided his belief that his literary legacy would not last long. It was one of the rare occasions that he was wrong
Read the full article18 May 2023
My obsession with Adrian Chiles’ column
I’d like to enjoy his Guardian writings, but there’s one small thing getting in the way
Read the full article17 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On royal reading
Having waited his entire life for this coronation service, and having apparently played a central role in devising it, the King was nonetheless unable to memorise his own lines
Read the full article10 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On the rise of AI
The pipe dream that the genie of AI is going to be thrust back in the bottle is just that
Read the full article03 May 2023
Multicultural Man: On literacy
Forget the headlines. Children's reading comprehension is on the decline, and their books are to blame
Read the full article26 April 2023
Multicultural Man: On bigotry
My inexplicable inability to call out the bigotry of the far right during an appearance on Question Time nearly a decade ago still rankles to this day
Read the full article19 April 2023
Multicultural Man: On London
I’ve decided to take up the challenge that this babel of boroughs represents, and over the next few months I intend to visit the most diverse regions of the capital
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Multicultural Man: On ageing
The satirical concept of immortal but increasingly senile people in Gulliver’s Travels highlights the societal impact of an ageing population
Read the full article30 March 2023
Multicultural Man: On critics
In the literary snake pit, writers and critics tend to either suck up to one another frantically, or bite down hard so as to inject their venom yet deeper
Read the full article23 March 2023
Multicultural Man: On eccentrics
A local modern-day bard, serenading commuters and beautifying the neighbourhood, is easily the best eccentric street person I’ve ever known
Read the full article16 March 2023
Multicultural man: On Paris tourists
The sight of tracksuit-wearing Brits entering one of the most beautiful brasseries on the Left Bank left me gasping and prostrated
Read the full article09 March 2023
Multicultural Man: On traffic
The case of a pedestrian jailed for causing the death of a cyclist highlights the ongoing power struggle on the pavements of urban Britain
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Multicultural Man: On psychosis
Exploring the connection between schizophrenia and emerging technologies
Read the full article23 February 2023
Multicultural Man: On a 'new' house
The tendency in the collective British psyche towards uchronia – a time that never was – rather than utopia, should gladden the King’s heart, since his entire raison d’être is the preservation of crumbling institutions
Read the full article16 February 2023
Multicultural Man: On church
A congregation that’s 100% anything when it comes to ethnicity hardly implies diversity, let alone multiculturalism
Read the full article09 February 2023
Out of their minds
Prince Harry and his wife may be absurd, but the reaction to his book shows almost everything he says about his family, and the press, is true
Read the full article09 February 2023
Multicultural Man: On ChatGPT
Some are worried the new AI open resource will render writing assignments redundant. Our writer's interaction would suggest not
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Multicultural Man: On neighbours
A house move causes our writer to ruminate on the problem of neighbourly relations
Read the full article26 January 2023
Multicultural Man: On dogs
We are deluded if we believe ourselves to be dogs' masters and mistresses
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