@NaomiAKlein sees an alliance of end-times fascists. Will Self sees something more disturbing: a system that can produce the same effects without any master, conspiracy or coherent ideology at all.

Peggy Noonan sees AI going rogue. Will Self sees something stranger: everyone understands the danger, everyone keeps accelerating — and nobody is really in control.

Will Self turns the lens on Alan Rusbridger, Lionel Barber and British journalism after Jason Arday’s death: a media machine that investigates everyone except itself–and may no longer know who is wagging whom.

From Orwell’s endless war to bonds, Bitcoin and climate crisis, Will Self examines an economy that turns catastrophe into stimulus—and verification into a substitute for trust.

After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when newspapers, platforms, editors and audiences become components in a machine nobody admits to controlling. The public interest is not the same thing as the public being interested.

Count Binface took 27 per cent of the vote. Nigel Farage took back Clacton. In a Norman church in Sussex, Will Self encountered the modern stab-in-the-back myth. It was wearing beige trousers.

Jordan Peterson thinks climate restraint is an assault on freedom. Will Self thinks the problem runs rather deeper: a politics incapable of accepting limits, decline—or death. On Peterson, the @Telegraph, and the death drive of the consuming West.