It's time to reclaim Britpop from the Britpoppers: unherd.com/2024/04/how-pa…

My review of Becca Rothfeld's amazing new book, and my first piece for the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com/premium/296851…

Huge thanks to the amazing team behind the most niche tabloid in the business, and particularly to my brilliant editor Jacob Furedi

Delighted to be publishing another blinder from Lias — 'To refute the systemisation of utterly everything at the price of full social ostracisation, there is no stronger aesthetic.'

New essay on the literature of Hell, holocausts of the past and the present, Jonathan Littell’s 2006 novel The Kindly Ones, and artistic representations of genocide - UnHerd

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The great Rob Doyle returns to UnHerd today with a truly epic essay on Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones, and the possibility and purpose of Auschwitz literature: unherd.com/2024/04/this-b…

'SBF represents both the culmination and the demise of a particular era of anti-haute couture: the age of the elite slob.'

Wrote a quick one on SBF and the end of slovenly Silicon Valley for UnHerd: unherd.com/newsroom/sbf-a…

'I have gone to simply extraordinary lengths to prolong an evening of drinking in London... I have climbed into strange taxis with taxing strangers. I have posed as a guest in hotel bars...'

London is tired of life, writes John Maier: unherd.com/2024/03/why-ca…

William Davies makes his UnHerd debut today with this first-class essay on Thomas Piketty and the new rentier economy he interpreted but couldn’t change: unherd.com/2024/03/thomas…

Very pleased to be running this, by Julius Krein, as UnHerd’s weekend essay – one of the most thoughtful and historically informed considerations of Claudine Gay, DEI and the future of American universities: unherd.com/2024/03/the-un…

Delighted to have Lily Lynch returning to UnHerd today with this excellent piece on the imperial progress of Ursula von der Leyen: unherd.com/2024/03/the-eu…

‘New Britain has gone in search of a new home.’

Fred Skulthorp does his best Iain Sinclair in this excellent piece on the death of the English suburb, written from the nether zone of London’s periphery, today on UnHerd: unherd.com/2024/03/the-ba…

Really delighted to be publishing the great Volodymyr Ishchenko as UnHerd’s Saturday essay – a fascinating discussion of the force of nationalism in Ukraine’s past, present and future: unherd.com/2024/02/the-re…

I wrote about folklore, conspiracy — and my peculiar run-in with the black panther of Oxfordshire for UnHerd unherd.com/2024/02/do-bla…

‘It was cruel but effective television: a legendarium of the underclass.’

Ten years on, Tanya Gold revisits Benefits Street and Austerity Britain in a truly startling weekend dispatch for UnHerd: unherd.com/2024/02/the-be…

Nostalgically lyrical piece today on UnHerd by Max Décharné, narrating the death of the British subculture and the arrival of the big flat now: unherd.com/2024/02/how-br…

Read S. I. Rubinstein on why E.P. Thompson remains the true Englishman's Marxist of choice, today on UnHerd: unherd.com/2024/02/e-p-th…

'Shakespeare had it wrong: uneasy is the head that wears no crown.'

Written about the modern baldness industry, and what it says about contemporary masculinity for UnHerd: unherd.com/2024/01/the-ma…

'Shakespeare had it wrong: uneasy is the head that wears no crown.'

Written about the modern baldness industry, and what it says about contemporary masculinity for UnHerd: unherd.com/2024/01/the-ma…

'The world around him is a Rorschach test, and he only ever sees one thing.'

S. I. Rubinstein back in UnHerd today with this excellent vivisection of Sathnam Sanghera's series of imperial histories: unherd.com/2024/01/the-em…