If God doesn’t exist, how do you explain cats, peacock feathers, and the prose of P.G. Wodehouse? If the Devil doesn’t exist, how do you explain cats, plague, and the prose of Judith Butler? As you can see, cats turn up on both sides of the ledger: on God’s for their charm, beauty, and mystery;...

Soaring success, then abject humiliation and suicide. That was the arc of Jason Arday’s career. It may also be the arc of Noel Clarke’s career. Clarke has already had the soaring success and the abject humiliation. So maybe the suicide will follow. But I don’t think it will. Clarke is a youngish Black man like...

Euclid envy. It’s a rare phrase and a common phenomenon. Down the centuries, countless thinkers, knowingly and unknowingly, have sought to emulate the Greek mathematician Euclid (~330–~275 BC) and his world-historic book Stoikheia, The Elements. It’s the foundation-stone of geometry, which literally means “earth-measuring.” I find The Elements both astonishing and awe-inspiring. It’s astonishing to...

Subtle symmetry. I like that in a work of art. And I was delighted to spot it in “Jason and the Arday-Nauts.” This is a hilarious live-action farce that’s been running in the Yookay for years. A blatant Blackademic bullshitter called Jason Arday has been feted and fawned over by British leftists. The leftists believed...

The Jewish philosopher Nathan Cofnas has got it badly wrong. Very badly wrong. At his newsletter, he’s made this claim: “There are more than a thousand black people in the UK with IQs over 140 who would be capable of doing serious work in the sociology of education.” That’s woefully, world-historically off-target. C’mon, Cozza, you’ve...

Andy Burnham will fail. That’s a very safe bet: the new British prime minister will fail. The only questions are how how badly and how quickly he’ll fail. He’s like a naked man armed with a water-pistol and eager for battle with a grizzly bear, a saber-tooth tiger and a large swarm of killer-bees. In...