Morgan Buswell

Why break the mould when you can smash it?

I’m going to ask you, if I may, to cast your minds back. If you’re a Gen Z reader then I’m going to ask you to cast your minds way back to the Biblical times. 2007. Take a deep breath. Picture it. The prestigious magazine Vanity Fair has just shocked the world with an article by the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens. Now, I greatly admire Mr Hitchens’ wide body of work but this, it must be said, was not his finest hour. The article, which he no doubt thought was a very thorough and meticulous example of journalism, was entitled “Why Women Aren’t Funny.”