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2025 Wrap-Up

Welcome to Griftopia

Cherish the Moments

Two Cheers for London

The Christian Grift

From One Ben to Another

Zafaraniya is a Country of the Future

Bad Actors and Crime Statistics

Why Philip Larkin Is Still My Favourite Poet

Prejudice and Power

November Diary

Reasons to be Thankful

The Rise and Rise of Upper Silesia

Buy My Sister’s Book!

Slopmaxxing

An Imaginary Emo Album and the Weirdness of AI

We Should Be Kind

The Problem With British Expats

Are You In An Angry Mob?

October Diary

Against the Politics of Trolling

Musings on the Motherland

Gooning and Dooming

On Getting Engaged

JA Baker’s Passionate Mobility

Mike White's Pessimistic Humanism

The Problem With Prison Justice

Cultural Murder in the Cathedral

Thoughts On Hatred

Sheer EDIocy

How I Gave Up My Smartphone

What I Like About Candace Owens

September Diary

Polly Toynbee's Tragedy

Why I Stopped Identifying as a Conservative

Constance Marten, Mark Gordon and Marginophilia

Family Blood II

Right-Wing Cancel Culture Will Fail

The Body Snatching of Christopher Hitchens

Is Malcolm Gladwell a Coward?

Why the Establishment are True Believers

Jailhouse Rap

Really Dangerous Ideas

August Diary

Against News by Viral Video

A Very Agnostic Day

A Viral Substack Essay

The Lobster King

The Human Wrongs of Roger Scruton's "Animal Rights and Wrongs"

Blogosphere Memories

On Male Violence and its Varieties

Did Jeffrey Epstein Read?

The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

The Death of a Writer

July Diary

The Emotional Roots of Cancel Culture

Leonardo Sciascia’s Mistake

The Amoral Right Gets Its Comeuppance

Britain Is Not Yet Lost

Is the Right Misusing Humour?

Breaking A Habit

Explaining Oikophobia

June Diary

IQ Is Not Everything

Taking the M14

How Britain Became a Beacon to the World

An Important Man

Office Hours

George Orwell and the Horrors of Contemporary Publishing

Illusions of Salvation

“Duckley”: A Review

May Diary

Conservatism contra conservatism

How AI Might Liberate Writers

Death of a Legend

The Rise of the Philosophical Terrorists

The Call of the Wild

Handling the Truth

Perhaps There IS A "Woke Right"

On Remembering World War Two

More Stuff, Fewer People?

What I Think About When I Think About Walking

April Diary

George Carver, Novelist

On Porn, Preaching and the Performative

Conspiracy Theories and Anti-Intellectualism

A Profile In Modern Rebellion

Generalist Relativity

Happy Birthday to THE ZONE

Why I Doubt That Britain Is Facing Civil War

My Morning Routine

The Men Who Orbit Trump

March Diary

Forty Things I Love About Poland

The Prophet of Basedness

Against Cynicism

Compassion Parasites

The 28th Amendment

Spring Memories

Halal Slaughter and Hypocrisy

Confessions of a Guilty Slob

The Anti-Russian Case for Peace

February Diary

A Morning in Grittleton

Trolling the Libs

Year of the Cold

The Ends and Means of Truth and Lies

Difference and Delusion

In Praise of Romance

Notes on Pole-arisation

Visually Striking, Spiritually Hollow

January Diary

Is the Right Cruel?

Karaoke and Civilisation

Murder and the Problem With Interpretative Elegance

The Weakness of Social Media Man II

What Makes Art Special?

The Weakness of Social Media Man

A Conspiracy of Murmuring