Thomas Crew
Thomas Crew is a PhD student at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, researching German dystopian literature. He has published on a number of 20th-century German authors, most recently on Ernst Jünger's novel The Glass Bees, and is frequently found researching in Berlin.
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future