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“Chaos, for Musk, is one tool among many that he can use to achieve his aims. Humans, it seems, are another.” In 'Delete, Delete, Delete', editor @johnmerrick.bsky.social‬ attempts to understand the contradictions of Elon Musk.

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Poor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!

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My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff. I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.

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My essay from the first print issue of The BREAK–DOWN, on Elon Musk, tech and the climate, is out from behind the paywall

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My essay from the first print issue of The BREAK–DOWN, on Elon Musk, tech and the climate, is out from behind the paywall

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hey it’s @the-breakdown.bsky.social in the USA

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Must read.

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v excited to have found my first print editon of @the-breakdown.bsky.social on my doormat today!! can’t wait to start reading

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Framing climate policy as a finance issue obscures the real stakes. We need to refocus debates on mobilizing real resources, challenging economic orthodoxies, and building a more just financial system. My latest for @the-breakdown.bsky.social www.break-down.org/post/real-co...

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As others have noted, this is very good on the developing neo-Thatcherite political consensus. Tomlinson is particularly strong on the bad history that underpins much of it

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‘The Labour landslide of 1945 surprised Attlee and dismayed Churchill, and the next five years on the right involved a hysterical reaction to its victory.’ Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the nature of wartime Conservatism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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This is an excellent critique of recent conservative thinking on the economy: renewal.org.uk/articles/bui...

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A great book. Something that can get lost in some analysis of Hill's work (not in Braddock's, mind) is his sheer impact his work had, and continues to have, on modern broader cultural knowledge & perceptions of the English Civil Wars.

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Nice to see one of my final pieces of editorial work at Verso, Mike Braddick's biography of Christopher Hill, rewarded with a sharp review by Stefan Collini in the latest LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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‘In general he did not engage in disputation with his critics, moving on with what some found an irritating mixture of intellectual confidence and cheerful serenity.’ Stefan Collini on Christopher Hill for @lrb.co.uk:

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My new piece on the death drive in Florida and the need for roots is out in the incredible inaugural issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social. Grateful to the editors for the opportunity to gather my thoughts on the meanings of risk and to write about home—and in the company of such brilliant people. ✨

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Really pleased to see the launch of this new journal. This is an incredibly urgent argument.

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glad to see one of my favourite English novels and easily the best occult fiction i’ve ever read finally coming back into print in August

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"Economics treats a lack of public finance as a natural constraint, obscuring how money is actually created. In reality, the only true constraints lie in the availability of real resources... to meet our needs." - @laramerling.bsky.social, now free to read online www.break-down.org/post/real-co...

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Thanks to everyone who came to hear me and @johnmerrick.bsky.social talk about Liverpool last night. Wonderful crowd and great questions. Everyone should support the amazing Pelican House in Bethnal Green and Scarlet Letters bookshop!

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Always exciting to see a new journal hit the left-wing intellectual eco-system

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I’ve been piecing together this Guardian long read for over a year - about a thoroughly plausible, utterly crooked lawyer who pretended to be the perfect gentleman while he spun a web of deceit. Thanks to @davidedgarwolf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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This journal is one of the best things to happen to scholarship on the politics of climate change and the environment. Big recommendation, everything they publish is worth a read!

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“Public development of renewable capacity ... isn't a suspension of the profit imperative but its subordination to social need” @brusselermel.bsky.social @chrismwhayes.bsky.social on the UK’s CfD scheme & derisking energy. 🔗 @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/nod...

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The epilogue from my book. Siva said it best - “what Powell says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after”

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"The life of nations" Powell once said "is lived largely in the imagination". They need myths to sustain themselves. The right know this, and they are trying to create new myths for the English nation. Starmer doesn't, and in tailing the racist right on immigration only feeds the right's delusions

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Perhaps more significant, the revolting word here - "squalid" - used in Starmer's speech today seems as provocative and as significant as Thatcher's notorious comment about Britain being "rather swamped" by migrants in 1978. Then, as now, it was a Powellite dog whistle. We are truly in hell.

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Enoch Powell increasingly seems to be the most powerful historical intellectual influence on contemporary British politics.

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Very excited for this event tomorrow! Please do come along if you're free

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London friends - a reminder that on Tuesday I’m going to be at the amazing Pelican House discussing my book Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain with @johnmerrick.bsky.social. Details on this beautiful poster below. Here’s a link for (free) tickets. pelicanhouse.org/event/liverp...

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“Chaos, for Musk, is one tool among many that he can use to achieve his aims. Humans, it seems, are another.” In 'Delete, Delete, Delete', editor @johnmerrick.bsky.social attempts to understand the contradictions of Elon Musk. Read now in RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1).

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I wrote about William Morris for the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Woke Capital is dead. Its post-mortem exposes the failure of Western governments to act on climate—long before Trump's return. Brett Christophers writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1). Buy a print copy here www.break-down.org/issues/1

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First copies of @the-breakdown.bsky.social out in the wild at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social

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ISSUE #1 featured in today's @carbonbrief.org newsletter 👇

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First copies of @the-breakdown.bsky.social out in the wild at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social

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Excellent intro. Instantly subscribed after reading.

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Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian. Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing. Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1

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One of my favourite essays from the first issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social: @beki.bsky.social on hurricanes, Florida and the insurance industry www.break-down.org/post/trying-...

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Excellent editorial. Looking forward to reading the magazine.

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Geoff Mann and Adrienne Buller's editorial from the first print issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is up on our site www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...

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