About Charlie Brooker: Charlton is an English satirist and broadcaster. He has worked in television, radio, print and online media.
One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.
Back in the 1930s, when men with handlebar moustaches played football in long johns and tails, and the ball was a spherical clod of bitumen, did fans weep in the stands when their team lost? No. They limited their responses to a muttered 'blast' or a...
Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical pleasure of turning actual pages” and how ebook will “never replace the real thing”. Then I was given a Kindle as a present. That shut me up. S...
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.
Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.
Must be frustrating being a scientist. There you are, incrementally discovering how the universe works via a series of complex tests and experiments, for the benefit of all mankind - and what thanks do you get? People call you "egghead" or "boffin" o...
