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Friday 29 May 2009
Tim Black
John Gray: the poster boy for misanthropy
He thinks there are far too many humans, that we are a plague on the planet and a rapacious horde, and that our desires for a better society will inevitably end in mass murder. How can such a misanthrope get out of bed every morning?

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