Dystopian Fiction
Knocking at the door of the Booker Prize
From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia
Dreams of dystopia past
At the end of a dismal year, consider the cult dystopias of the optimistic 1990s.
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life