Will Self
09 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
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Multicultural Man: On dogs
We are deluded if we believe ourselves to be dogs' masters and mistresses
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Multicultural Man: On beer
During 20 beer-free years a coldness crept throughout the collective British cellar – like some especially mundane effect – lacquering casks and bottles with condensation
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Multicultural Man: On Britain v France
Despite British perfidy over the protocol, and the reneging of basic humanitarian values when it comes to migration, the French seem more bemused than belligerent
Read the full article05 January 2023
Multicultural Man: On Vivienne Westwood
There’s no doubt that she knew how to make clothes in every sense – but the idea that she represented a spirit of rebelliousness is frankly ridiculous
Read the full article22 December 2022
Multicultural Man: On charity shops
Charity shops are for the most part either full of dismal tat; or, are like Oxfam’s specialist bookshops: stocked with the crème of the haute bourgeoisie’s discarded… crème
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the fake
Jacob Rees-Mogg isn’t what he seems
Read the full article15 December 2022
Multicultural Man: On ‘goblin mode’
A backlash against looking perfect on social media has led to “goblin mode” becoming the word of the year
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Multicultural Man: On stereotypes
Reading the British press in the last few weeks and months, you get the impression there are only two kinds of migrants landing on these shores
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Multicultural Man: On streetlamps
You don’t need to be some sort of Victoriana re-enactment freak in order to appreciate the beauty of gas lamps
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Multicultural Man: On race and identity
The current and curious inversions of racial prejudice that have resulted in people pretending to be black or brown mirror those of snobbery that accompanied the cultural revolutions of my youth
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Succumbing to hideous transformation
On the eve of a new translation of the author’s diaries, the question arises, is the Kafkaesque now just completely normal?
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Multicultural Man: On India
Britain is no longer fit for purpose. It should voluntarily become a colony of India
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Multicultural Man: On migrants
For those of the Brexit persuasion, the East Europeans who managed to get in should be called Benefits Vultures. They are as far from this as imaginable
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Multicultural Man: On racism and The Great British Bake Off
Empires rise and fall, and yet Bake Off remains on our screens. Yet, across the pond commentators recently took aim at Mexico week
Read the full article27 October 2022
Multicultural Man: On Charleston
The co-option of queerness by capitalism is perhaps the most sterile union imaginable: giving birth only to merch rather than masterpieces
Read the full article20 October 2022
Multicultural Man: On Easter Island
It is surpassing ironic that the tragedy of the Rapanui and their extraordinary statues should now be farcically repeated
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Multicultural Man: On Alcoholics Anonymous
A self-help organisation based firmly on the principle and practice of its members not being publicly identified by name has come to embody the exact opposite
Read the full article06 October 2022
Multicultural Man: On the fourth plinth
The dismal artworks which have sat atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square bear ample evidence of how little contemporary conceptual art has to offer civic society
Read the full article29 September 2022
Multicultural Man: On free speech
Like so many passionate contemporary ethical conflicts, a row in the publishing world is really about a narcissism of extremely small differences indeed
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Multicultural Man: On removals
A recent experience with removal men helped me understand something. The mark of relatively free society is that the personal trumps the political
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Multicultural Man: On diversity
Liz Truss's cabinet isn't as diverse as it seems, despite what the prime minister says
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Multicultural Man: On diminutives
Is it the small size of Scotland’s population that gives them a linguistic kink: a desire to reduce everything to the compass of a cosy domesticity?
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Multicultural Man: On autocomplete
Microsoft's new software wants to stop us writing anything that’s unacceptable or offensive. But unacceptable and offensive to whom?
Read the full article25 August 2022
Multicultural Man: On free speech
Following the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie the term chautauqua may well undergo a semantic shift, becoming synonymous not with the exercise of free speech, but with crazed attempts to repress it
Read the full article18 August 2022
Multicultural Man: On trainers
In fetishising the trainer, the devotee makes of it a transitional object: something that eases the troubling developmental stage between childhood and adulthood
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Multicultural Man: On Game of Thrones
Its creators may plead otherwise, but the world's biggest TV show rendered sex as grotesque and alienating as any puritanical religiosity
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Multicultural Man: On markets
Are markets ever a place's real cultural centre, asks our columnist
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Multicultural Man: On jeans
The time has come for Europeans to take back control of the world’s most popular juvenescent fashion statement
Read the full article28 July 2022
Opera’s great awokening
Will Self on the new, colour-conscious Madama Butterfly
Read the full article14 July 2022
Multicultural Man: On Bob Dylon (sic)
A new recording of a Bob Dylan classic takes our columnist back to a bathetic night in Wisconsin
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