A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution. In its glorious descent from Empire to food banks, the UK might be considered a cautionary model of how a society can peck itself to the point where there seems to be not much left but feathers. In the spectral light of the current Qatarmess experiment, we look at the role football may have played in this unravelling, when everything had seemed to be going swimmingly and everyone was driving…
Props to Stormzy for the title. Or, as Prince King Charles might say: ‘Who is this Stormy chap? One’s never heard of him’. The Fish, while as (dis)interested as anyone in the unravelling of modernity, is ultimately less concerned with the falling crumbs of the crumbling old order than the larger mosaic of which they are fragments. That said, the Fish has been keeping its head down for a while now and swimming along with its mouth closed. This was partly due to…
The Fish has lately been silenced into grief by the horrors visited on the good people of Ukraine. We shan’t be analysing any of it here, partly because it is all beyond polite vocabulary. But it is impossible not to wonder in open-mouthed disbelief at what Sauron and his orc army of morons are doing to their neighbours with the support of most of his people. It’s medieval. I recall reading an article many years ago which claimed that Putin…