Stoddard Martin
Stoddard Martin is a writer and publisher. His most recent fiction, under the name of Chip Martin, is Argonaut: commencement tales (Starhaven)
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland