Trolling Tragedies (or Asking Questions)
Written June 2026 This week marked the two-year anniversary of the curious case of Jay Slater, the British teenager who allegedly fell to his death while on holiday in Tenerife. To recap, after being reported missing by a friend, Jay’s body was allegedly found in a ravine a month later, the 19-year-old seemingly having suffered a catastrophic head injury from the fall. The case attracted huge press attention, as well as a considerable amount of speculation by “online ghouls”.
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Truth and Trust
Written June 2026 The 1969 “moon landings” have long been my benchmark, perhaps slightly arrogantly, for ascertaining the depth of a person’s perception skills. I have been a moon landing denier from a young age, and it has always struck me as unfathomable that anyone could believe not least the blatant fakery of the footage from “the moon”, but also the inability of the authorities to explain the inexplicable. The landline telephone call from the White House to the moon shou
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Pure and Unadulterated Lies
Written April 2026 In the heady days of my late teens, I was a college student enjoying the folly of youth, which meant putting the minimum of effort into the incredibly dull course I was studying during the week (admittedly ditching a few lectures to play pool and drink cider in the local) and looking forward to the weekends, which were whiled away with friends at pubs and clubs. We also enjoyed raves of the kind that only 1990s kids will remember, sometimes in an abandoned
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TMI? Yes. Definitely TMI.
Written April 2026 At the risk of being called a proper prude, I am sick and tired of the trend for women in the public eye declaring to the world just how sexually active they are, and embellishing their statements with sordid descriptives of just how “out there” they are with their tastes and proclivities. I’m not even talking of the bullshittery that is “Bonnie Blue”, whose activities seem, frankly, completely implausible, in fact, impossible. I’m referring instead to the
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