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
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Communication breakdown
Young journalists will learn nothing from this drivel
All the President’s toadies
American journalism lacks a healthy contempt for the ruling class