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I have a piece in the spring issue of Jacobin, on the decline of literacy and what might happen to politics once our minds are no longer intimately structured by the written word. Like all these essays, it quotes Walter Ong. Apparently, som...
Lately I’ve been feeling warlike. My blood’s running hot. Maybe it’s because the longest, greyest, most miserable winter I can remember is finally over and the world is returning to life. All the trees are in bloom, the birds are cooing in...
Four sensible suggestions
THE STORY SO FAR: By late 2026, Britain was in crisis. Keir Starmer’s government had become so deeply unpopular that it posed an active and ongoing threat to public order. The Prime Minister couldn’t wobble his bi...
Human beings have manic episodes; when it happens to an entire nation we call it empire. The affliction is the same. You prance around town with your tits practically pouring out your top, demanding drinks from strangers, snatching cigarett...
Numb at the Lodge currently runs to more than one hundred posts and nearly half a million words. That’s quite a lot of words. It doesn’t help that the stuff I write here usually gets described as ‘indescribable’ and categorised as ‘uncatego...
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