Archive - Poke the Bear

April 2025

I don't want to read your novel

Give me your takes, spare me your fiction

Apr 29 •

March 2025

Corporate bullying is good

Companies have no feelings and should be freely abused

Mar 10 •

The West is not over

America's youthful hard power is converting to the flabby gravitas of middle age

Mar 4 •

February 2025

The 21st century war on border gore has begun

And Big Cartography stands to win bigly

Feb 18 •

Writing is office work

Although like an eighties financier, you can drink on the job

Feb 10 •

After Chagos, Starmer can only be a law zealot or a traitor

Not in the cool Claudia Winkleman way either

Feb 5 •

A 'reckoning' on grooming gangs won't satisfy the right

Whoever is punished, mass migration has already happened

Feb 2 •

January 2025

Should The Traitors be fixed?

When you turn your single-player mode into a co-op game

Jan 29 •

Clearly, Elon Musk did a Nazi salute

Jan 21 •

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