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Between the Waves, incurable romanticism, and politics for sickos
Sep 15 • 
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Dirty Thirty
A power station, a pond, and the ruin of Britain’s nuclear imagination
Sep 5 • 
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Resist Closure
On M. John Harrison, The Course of the Heart, and why British politics needs the strange
Sep 2 • 
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August 2025

Praising Arizona
Gunk, The Boys, and the art of accidental parenthood
Aug 23 • 
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Smile and Wave
On Heads of State, Anthony Trollope, and why enjoyment is political authority
Aug 5 • 
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July 2025

The Kept Man's Survival Guide
On David Szalay’s Flesh
Jul 13 • 
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Shoppy People
On Drayton and Mackenzie, and imagining our way to economic growth
Jul 6 • 
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June 2025

The Committed Men
28 Years Later, and the Quest to Make Britain Weird Again
Jun 27 • 
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The Last Useful Man
Tom Cruise, The Final Reckoning, and the case for embodied knowledge
Jun 20 • 
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My Year of No Rest and Relaxation
On solo parenting and Steve Martin
Jun 16 • 
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The Return of the Blagger
On Geoff Dyer, and where all the literary men have gone
Jun 3 • 
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May 2025

Olivia the Spy
In praise of Olivia Manning
May 27 • 
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