“Ritualised compulsive comfort-seeking”? Rite of passage? "Public enemy number 1"? Fact of life? Enemy of promise? Certain death? Fun?

Should drugs scare those parents waving their kids off to university? How can we talk about it to them? Welcome to the undergrowth of my mind. Make sure you have a scyth and secateurs handy

“Man is condemned to be free”. Keep this fridge magnet smasher of Sartre’s in mind as you read on.

The Substack artiste, Esther ‘On the Spike’ Coren, has written a useful list of things to pack for the first term at university. I am not an especially practical person and won’t be adding to her list, though I strongly second her first item, a plastic pint…