Over the decades I’ve been taking the train south from Napoli Centrale, the station has got busier and busier. And like other European cities, the growth in the number of homeless people living around the station is shocking.

I accidentally one-click bought some climate denialist garbage on Amazon by swiping too hard. I hesitated for a second before returning. Perhaps I should consider alternative viewpoints. I didn’t want to give the crank any money, though. Have I just cancelled?

I’ve got superstitious over the years over the order I put the vegetables into a ciambotta.

Mitigating the risk of extinction from an out of touch and amoral billionaire class should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Your occasional guide to understanding the right:

  • Classical Liberal = over-credentialed incel reactionary.
  • Free Speech Absolutist = loves sound of own voice. In a sexual way.
  • Contrarian = broken down boomer journalist desperate for clicks.

The bourgeois populist press coverage of inflation and interest rates is as howlingly vacuous as the national populist press coverage of immigration and “small boats”.