The Zone

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Hello, Obligatory shilling. I wrote for The Critic about the uses and abuses of nostalgia, for UnHerd about right-wing humour and for my Substack…
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Believe me, I’d rather be talking about Albert Camus than Renaud Camus. The Plague? What a book. The Fall? Genius. His living namesake’s most important…
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Hello, Obligatory shilling. I wrote for The Critic about the ACLU and overcoming O’Sullivan’s Law. I interviewed Ed West in the debut of my new series…
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I meet Ed West on a ludicrously sunny afternoon, in an Italian restaurant nestled somewhere between Hillingdon and Havery. The author of such books as…
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Hello, Obligatory shilling. I had fun with Dave Rubin’s miserably lazy book Don’t Burn This Country for the Spectator World. For my paying subscribers…
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Notes on events and perspective
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Reflections on disease
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Hello, Obligatory shilling. I wrote for The Critic about the potential outcomes of Elon Musk buying Twitter. I wrote on Substack about the oddest night…
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Have you ever had an experience so odd you wonder if it really happened? You were there, but as time passes you wonder if the real and the imaginary…
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A story from my book
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Hello, Obligatory shilling. For my paying subscribers, I reviewed a bizarre transgender themed revenge fantasy novel and reflected on fear and…
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Right-wing attitudes, many claim, are built on fear. For example, Dr Bobby Azarian, writing for Psychology Today, comments: Peer-reviewed research shows…
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