Oasis are playing shows this year, and it couldn’t come soon enough. Not just for the nostalgia, not just for the songs, but because the world has changed—and not necessarily for the better. And I believe Oasis, in all their swaggering, unapologetic, two-fingered glory, are the antidote to everything that’s gone wrong.

Scottish football is a museum piece disguised as a sport. A game fuelled by passion but throttled by parochialism. A national pastime clinging to relics of a bygone age that in truth was never as golden as we pretend.

Power, fame, influence—each a drug, each corrupting faster than the last. We live in an age where grifters steal truth, sell it back as spectacle, and gaslight the masses with fake metrics. The circus of influence is here—and it feeds on your attention. Step outside the tent.