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Two recent essays
and a partial update
Jan 30 • 
John Merrick
Decline redux
On race, decline ... and the Guardian
Jul 14 • 
John Merrick
"The rainbow and the crescent"
Tracking the right
Jul 10 • 
John Merrick
The Language of Your Fathers
For a talk I’m giving in Exeter tomorrow afternoon, about class and publishing and culture, i’ve been revisiting an essay I wrote in early 2020, and…
Mar 23 • 
John Merrick
The execrable cult of Jonathan Bowden
Jonathan Bowden, the British far-right writer and activist, was like a figure from a Bolaño novel.
Mar 16 • 
John Merrick
HS2 was never the north’s salvation
Latest for the NS
Oct 24, 2024 • 
John Merrick
Ian Jack
This weekend I was commissioned to write a short piece about HS2, and the rather grim state of Britain’s railways – and of the country more generally.
Oct 20, 2024 • 
John Merrick
Why is the left so bad on the right?
Some years ago I tried to acquire the rights to a book on the intellectual ferment of the post-Cold War American right.
Sep 28, 2024 • 
John Merrick
The Making of a People's Historian
On Raphael Samuel
Sep 24, 2024 • 
John Merrick
The Ex-Communists
Anti-Communism is back in fashion
Aug 6, 2024 • 
John Merrick
Morbid Symptoms
On the riots and their reaction
Aug 5, 2024 • 
John Merrick
Britain's new right, again
On Novara, Gigi D'agostino and the dark parts of the internet
Jul 27, 2024 • 
John Merrick
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