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Issue 49; Editorial, 26th July, 2025

As we enjoy a welcome break with some beautiful cooler air after weeks of sweating, with linen shirts clinging to our backs like an over friendly shower curtain, we are back with a new issue of The Fake Intellectual.

The first half of 2025 has been an odd one for all, from politics across the world going into a downward spiral, wars continuing and getting worse elsewhere and heatwaves setting fire to much of Europe, end of world anyone?  Obviously you would expect a website such as this may mention some of the horrid things happening in the world.  However, there are better people out there doing this and I feel many are not qualified to make a statement and should just keep opinions to themselves.  With this in mind we are doing what we always do and write about things that matter on an individual level.  

Take this month as an example of the FI, as I write about eating great food at a Michelin starred restaurant, my tired eyes giving up on me and for the first time, I review the books I have been reading as part of my ‘Current Morning Read’ series.  And finally we got the most English person in England, with a name that screams upper class to write about not travelling like an Englishman when going on holiday, we welcome Piers Little.  Piers contacted me out of the blue wanting to write for the FI after stumbling onto the website when searching for something else, probably more high brow.  The non Instagram, social media plum mouthed apologetic Mr Little is a man who speaks his mind, but very politely, so I’m sure he will be back with some delights and commentary on our lives and the world as he sees it.


If you subscribe to the newsletter you will also be looking at the lovely little article about my general hatred of technology and how I am going backwards, it could be age, but it is also the way it is all going.  Grab a coffee, sit back and have a read and enjoy.


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