Every organisation says it wants honest feedback and has exactly one person who gives it, and that person is always halfway out the door.

How somebody looks after their own body is nobody else's business. Not mine, not yours, not their colleague's, not a stranger's on the internet.

There is no book everyone ought to have read, and the list is always suspiciously full of whatever the person making it was assigned at nineteen.

Every awards ceremony is now three hours of people who have already won things being given more things by people who won them earlier.

We are going to spend the next ten years discovering which parts of the internet were being held together by people doing it for free.

"Free delivery" is not free and we all know it is not free and we all still pick it, which I think says something slightly embarrassing about all of us.

Renting is not throwing money away, and I say that as somebody who spent eight years feeling ashamed about it. You are buying the ability to leave.

Nobody budgets for the thing that actually ruins a month, because the thing that ruins a month is never in the categories.

Sport is the last mainstream thing where the outcome is genuinely unknown to everyone watching, and that scarcity explains most of what it costs. Everything else in the culture now arrives pre-summarised, already reacted to, and with the ending available before you start. The live unknown is what the broadcast money is really buying.

Most people who say they want honest feedback want accurate praise, and the two are easy to confuse until the feedback is actually negative. You can watch the switch happen in real time: the request is sincere, and then the first genuine criticism arrives and the next twenty minutes are spent supplying context.

Nearly everything we were told about food between about 1980 and 2015 turned out to be wrong, and almost nobody who told us has ever accounted for it.

We built an entire economy on the idea that people will keep buying things they already have, and then act surprised when the things are designed to stop working.

Sat down and added up the subscriptions. Seventy one pounds a month, and I could name four of them.

Ask anyone whether they want the truth from their doctor and they say yes, then go to pieces the moment a doctor is actually blunt with them.

Reading a hard book slowly is not the same activity as reading an easy book slowly, and treating them as one thing is why reading targets are useless. Counting books is like counting meals — the number is accurate and it tells you almost nothing about whether anything was absorbed.

Football has too much football now.

Everything is a franchise now and the honest reason is that an unknown thing is a risk somebody has to personally sign off on.

Every sport eventually optimises the fun out of itself, because the people playing are trying to win and nobody is trying to make it enjoyable to watch.

Every few years somebody announces that we have cured a thing in mice, and nobody ever writes the follow-up where it did not work in people.

unpopular opinion but most "food deserts" are actually time deserts. the shop is there, people are working two jobs.

Football was better without VAR and I will not be moved on this. You cannot celebrate on a three minute delay.

We keep calling it a housing crisis like it's weather.

Films are too long. Not artistically, logistically — I have children and a bus to catch.

Everyone has become an amateur nutritionist about their own dog.

Peer review does more harm than good at this point. Two anonymous strangers, no accountability, eighteen months, and a result nobody will ever try to reproduce.