The latest episode of the Our Current Predicament podcast is out now.

S D Wickett talks to Luke Perry.

In this episode, Paul Embery, author of Despised and columnist for UnHerd, joins S D Wickett to discuss his favourite music, books, film and more.

Wilde remains largely positive through it all, an attitude which lends itself to his own quotation ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’.

The inescapability of this reality means there is no cure; there is only a balm, one balm. Love.

Love is when you choose to stick with someone, no matter what and in spite of the rest of the world forever; and it is one of the most beautiful things that a person can experience.

Trust then in the men around you was important; if one man broke ranks or ran the battle was effectively over if the formation could not be reformed.

British people used to live, work, worship, drink, eat, and travel together, but now they increasingly do so alone. This development underpins the phenomenon of modern alienation and isolation, which has led to an increasingly unhappy and unharmonious nation.