The Chimera
Tom BarrieA newsletter of high and low culture read by 400k+ readers in the last two years
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 78 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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The most dangerous men in heavy metal are now middle-aged
I first published this long piece back in June 2024. I had a grand total of 59 subscribers back then; not even enough to fill a Routemaster bus. As such, very few people read it, but it was a lot of fun to research and write.
There’s a lo...
Some anxieties about The Odyssey
Well, it finally happened. Argentina took time out of crying about the Falklands, singing racist songs and throwing leftists out of helicopters to put England out of the World Cup last night, and I need something to take my mind off it.1
I...
How Italian football clubs embraced high fashion
Tonight, England might very well be knocked out of the World Cup by a Norwegian team I’ve been afraid of since they qualified. Look past ~~Grendel~~ Erling Haaland, and there are still a lot of other players capable of ~~grinding your bones...
Disclosure Day. Yikes
A Gooner friend of mine missed the Arsenal victory at the end of last season because he was in a rep cinema watching Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person In The World for the first time. For those who don’t follow English football, Arsenal’s cl...
Wait, SNL UK was… good?
When they announced a British edition of Saturday Night Live back in 2025, it seemed doomed to fail.
Comedy travels about as well as clotted cream on a hot train; it ages even faster. TV history is littered with the mangled corpses of prev...
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London-based freelance journalist and writer. Longlisted for the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism 2025, winner of the Futurist Letters “Dispatches” short story competition. Find my bylines in British GQ, Wired, The Face and more.
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