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my novel: The Better Maker
So, I’ve finally finished editing my novel, The Better Maker. In terms of the plot it’s a fairly typical Bildungsroman, about a young man who comes to…
Dec 13, 2025
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Alice Oseman's Loveless
After finishing The Better Maker, I wondered if I had any contemporaries, and behold — it turns out that my alma mater, the University of Durham, and…
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altitude
- Like animals that cannot breathe at a certain altitude without perishing, the slave dies in the atmosphere of freedom.
Jan 13
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slop nation
Slop really is apt, it conjures images of an undifferentiated mass: which is pretty much how our rulers view us, as fungible amoebic units, purely…
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Übertreibungskunst
- All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Jan 6
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on the uses of hierarchy
Growing up in the 80s, there was a background sense of bad old stuffy English tradition: bewigged judges who liked to be whipped by prostitutes…
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"against their own King"
- But what the three men really wanted to know, Nicholls realised, was how the Ulysses had been, how a crew of mutineers had borne themselves.
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poetry as meditation
I’ve been grimly enjoying recent articles about how university students can no longer read, that is, their eyes move over the text, they understand most…
Dec 27, 2025
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