The Pineapple

Pineapple Slices 9: The weakening eye

Readers, pineapples, lonely hearts, links, endings, beginnings

Dec 31, 2024

November 2024

Half of our chicken

On being colonised

Nov 13, 2024

May 2024

Pineapple Slices 8: The Festival and the Dome

Electioneering, the state of the nation, a challenge to AI, Pep’s inspiration

May 25, 2024

November 2023

Like a windowpane

The myth of Orwell’s plain style

Nov 28, 2023

May 2023

Pineapple Slices 7: Chopper Harris

Centrist dads, managers, popes, kings, Shane Meadows, RH Tawney etc

May 5, 2023

August 2022

Pineapple Slices 6: A great affection

Babies, gasholders, national decline, links, hymns

Aug 13, 2022

March 2022

Extremely nigh

Rationalism in wartime

Mar 25, 2022

Pineapple Juice 5: The peace you desire

Five stupid questions about the war

Mar 15, 2022

December 2021

Pineapple Juice 4: How now feels

Hysteria, unions, boredom, priests, protests, pineapples, etc

Dec 24, 2021

October 2021

Can you achieve anything?

Dreams, vaccines, trees, gliders and novels

Oct 12, 2021

July 2021

Pineapple Juice 3: Neither video nor bacterium

Selfishness, Orkney, liberal Catholicism, the Thing, food delivery apps

Jul 26, 2021

May 2021

Pineapple Juice 2: Out of the world’s heat

Fields, royals, Scholls, millennials, Oscars, vegetables and culture wars

May 14, 2021