"Why does he not say to Catholics, and to all people of goodwill: restrict your time online...Limit your use to an hour. Recover silence. Recover boredom. Recover prayer. Recover reading. Recover the face of another human being.
“The Gates Foundation’s achievements in global health are real; that is precisely why the moral problem is so acute. Hypercapitalism does not fail because it does no good. It fails because the good it does becomes dependent on the continued legitimacy of the structures that caused, intensified or monetised the harm it also conspicuously does: harm to the environment overall, but even more: harm to the capacity people have to believe in the good at all when it’s parachuted from above by a cargo cult headed by a John Frum who shops at Costco.”
'I disposed of all the Class A drugs I had on me...into my body'
Will Self on what really happened behind his 90s 'doing heroin on John Major's plane' story, his 'antisemitic' mother who was delighted to have blonde children, and feeling estranged from the society in which he grew up
Plus a lifetime of masturbation, crushes on fellow schoolboys, and the experience of being 'deeply in love' and cared for while being very ill
Fascinating and deeply honest - @wself speaking to @GylesB1 on @therosebudpodyoutube.com/watch?v=NhMysi…
"It’s worth considering again how anyone with tastes that mundane could possibly spend all that money. Faced with Gates’s duff philanthropy, one almost longs for him to be some Hannibal Lecter, who would at least build a Topaki Palace-sized torture chamber with all that dosh, rather than just torment us with normcore."
Pushy north London parents are always so difficult to please… and Will Self’s dad was no exception. Will was able to read by age three. But why was his father still unimpressed?
Listen to the full episode to hear more reflections on his unconventional family life. @GylesB1
The hilarious Will Self tells @GylesB1 about his first experiences of sex and masturbation in this week's Rosebud, and they may surprise you!
For more outrageous tales of a fascinating life, tune in to this week's Rosebud.
As a young journalist, Will Self found himself aboard the Prime Minister's plane. What happened next would become one of the most infamous episodes of his career.
Listen to the full episode for more reflections on his drug-fueled youth. @GylesB1
This is excellent.
"History takes a very long time to be consumed in Britain. That is why British society so often appears strangely heavy and indigestible. Looking at British culture is rather like examining the pellet of a game bird: fragments of the creatures and herbage on which it fed remain recognisable within the compacted mass."
A splendid piece by @wself on 007.
Back in the 70s AFAICR the late Mordecai Richler waded into Bond mythology castigating his (Fleming's) misogyny and antisemitism - this is part of that noble tradition.
BTW it's Kilgour not Kilgore (unless you're punning).
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