Jul 16, 2025
The world really is conspiring against you: Food, fashion and film against a backdrop of high finance
Sometimes the illogicality of modern life baffles me; that we’re all going full pelt all the time only to struggle really to get anywhere. It’s not just big things, like inflation outstripping wages, or the fact that the poor are relentlessly penalised for it, as I found myself describing to Jonah when he asked what finance was, looking at bikes today at Evans Cycles in the sale (which basically…