Josh Mcloughlin
@joshmcloughlin
⁍ PhD from @UCL ⁍ Writer @The_Fence_Mag @NewStatesman @Prospect_UK @Spectator @TheTimes @EngelsbergIdeas @TheLondonMag ⁍ Ed @NewCritique ⁍ YNWA
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For Prospect's Good Death series, I wrote about ars moriendi, the art of death & assisted dying debates, feat. Plato, Henry Suso, the Black Death, Hamlet, Keats, Burke, Hume, Tagore, Derrida, physician associates, a privatised NHS & for-profit dying prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-d…
For centuries, ars moriendi depicted death, suicide—and what comes after. As MPs consider legalising assisted dying, they would be wise to look back at a long tradition, writes Josh Mcloughlin. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-d…
Do you hate January? If so, you are wrong, for January is the best of all months. See my 'Apology for January' in The Fence Magazine to learn why Jan is king and my beef with each of the other months
This is how you get someone to open an email, 10/10 newslettering from The Fence Magazine
The public's appetite for intellectual stimulation is now being met by podcasts. The risks to the written word may prove existential. My latest for Engelsberg Ideas: engelsbergideas.com/notebook/podca…
I really loved writing this for Engelsberg Ideas, on chorography, feat. Ptolemy, Ranulf Higden, William Camden, Spenser, Shakespeare, John Stow, William Blake, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nicolas Bouvier, Paul Devereux, Iain Sinclair, Mark Cocker & more engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-los…
