The Metric System: The Tool Of The Devil
“The metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hog’s head, and that’s the way I likes it!”
Tom Whyman
Latest Editorials by Tom Whyman
The Protest No One Noticed
You might not have noticed or realized, but on Monday between the hours of 7-10 AM, a monumental protest was held in London. Members of the group Push Those Buttons (previously called “Push Them Buttons”), sick of “tyrrany, genocide, vaccine...
The UK Media's Climate Optimism Clouds Our Vision
Last week, you might have seen a viral Sky News story about how the U.K. is among the “five nations most likely to survive a collapse of global civilization” – at least according to researchers from the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia...
Where The Wild Things Aren't
Are you worried about the scourge of wokeness coming for your kids? In the present age of trans rights activism, high levels of vaccine uptake, and critical race theory, no parent can afford to be too careful: there’s every chance your kids could be...
Sajid Javid's Freedom Day Fantasy
Throughout the first year of the pandemic, responsibility for the U.K.’s health service lay with Matt Hancock, who first rose to public prominence when, as a more junior MP, he launched a social media app called simply “Matt Hancock.” This app...
Just Don't Look
In “Attack of the 50ft Eyesores,” one of the Treehouse of Horror shorts from The Simpsons, Springfield falls prey to a fearsome mob of giant advert mascots led by the Lard Lad – the colossal mascot of a donut shop whose big donut has been stolen by...
LinkedIn for Babies: How Should We Feel About Childcare Apps?
My son, at the age of almost two, has recently threatened to sleep through the night. For the first year-and-a-bit of his life, he was an apocalyptically terrible sleeper, progressing at exhausting increments from “needing to be held constantly so...
How to Rehydrate the Media
At the start of a Simpsons episode from 1993, Bart pulls a prank on his teachers and Mrs. Krapabbel decides to punish him by calling on him first for every question she asks the class. Ostensibly, this punishment will last for the rest of the school...
Keir Starmer's Most Iconic Line
Last Thursday, when a number of elections were running simultaneously in the U.K. (there was Americanized talk of a “Super Thursday”), a picture of a poster did the rounds on social media: a group of people, one of whom was the Labour Deputy Leader...