Decline redux

On race, decline ... and the Guardian

Jul 14 • 

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"The rainbow and the crescent"

Tracking the right

Jul 10 • 

John Merrick

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March 2025

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 • 

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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 • 

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January 2025

Two recent essays

and a partial update

Jan 30 • 

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October 2024

HS2 was never the north’s salvation

Latest for the NS

Oct 24, 2024 • 

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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

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September 2024

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

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The Making of a People's Historian

On Raphael Samuel

Sep 24, 2024 • 

John Merrick

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August 2024

The Ex-Communists

Anti-Communism is back in fashion

Aug 6, 2024 • 

John Merrick

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Morbid Symptoms

On the riots and their reaction

Aug 5, 2024 • 

John Merrick

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July 2024

Britain's new right, again

On Novara, Gigi D'agostino and the dark parts of the internet

Jul 27, 2024 • 

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