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In a piece for this month’s Spectator US, I review a book about the “girl stunt journalists” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some of whose w…
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May 11CommentShare
In The Critic this month, I write about two recent books on our relationship with work. The pandemic moment has led people to reassess their relationsh…
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Apr 8CommentShare
I did not buy a puppy during the pandemic. But I might be looking to get a dog in the future so I started browsing some websites. And the first thing t…
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Mar 28CommentShare
Hello everyone, and welcome new readers. I’ve finally updated the title here to “Notes from the Field”, which was always my blog title, so has some con…
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Feb 18CommentShare
I mentioned on Twitter at the weekend the inclusion of an urban legend in the form about changing school names in San Francisco. And these sort of urba…
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Feb 1CommentShare
I posted my thoughts on cancel culture on twitter yesterday, and seemed to resonate with quite a few people.
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Jan 27CommentShare
My review of Chris Gosden’s book on the history of magic for Reason is now online. I find the ways our ancestors looked for patterns and magic in the w…
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Jan 26CommentShare
This month I have a piece in Spectator USA about the idea of the antiheroine. It’s a change I’ve noticed in TV and film in recent years, where for a lo…
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Jan 13CommentShare
Dear reader, you don’t need me to tell you that in so many ways this has been a crappy year. But it’s been a time for people rethinking a lot of things…
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Dec 31, 2020CommentShare
Like many of you, I’m preparing to celebrate a fairly scaled-back Christmas. I’m lucky to be safe, to have avoided the covid (thus far!), and to have e…
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Dec 24, 2020CommentShare
So this week I had a piece in the Spectator which is a review of two books looking at the histories of the British Empire, it got me thinking of the wa…
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Dec 8, 2020CommentShare
Since I set up this little newsletter, I've been thinking about digital subscriptions. I had this exchange with Thomas Chatterton Williams on twitter a…
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Dec 1, 2020CommentShare
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