Sitemap - 2023 - Writing from London
Dare Labour politicians trust the public?
Gaza has pushed the post-colonial left into QAnon-style conspiracy theories
Merry Xmas (or happy holidays) everybody!
A Russian victory will shatter the West
Did Frans Hals hate the bourgeoisie?
Rishi Sunak is both a sinister operator and a preposterous figure
Anti-Jewish racism is the mother of all conspiracy theories
Shitty realism: the far-right’s most effective weapon
The Conservatives have killed Thomas Cromwell’s England
Playing the far right's game: academics and the Gaza conflict
What’s left of Christopher Hitchens?
Weekend round up: Go woke, go broke?
Atrocity tourism: The global left and Hamas
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the cowardice of far-right politics
The pretence that the far right does not exist is destroying conservatism
The death of socialism and the rise of the woke
The bitter legacy of the Gaza conflict will change us for the worse
Conservatives would rather burn the house down than accept responsibility for their failures
Murder of a peace activist: Hamas and the blindness of the global left
How the war in Gaza is dividing the UK
The Judges have delivered one of hell of a blow to the Conservatives’ Rwanda deportation plan
Britain: What the hell just happened? Interview with Robert Saunders on the Conservative collapse
The strange power of the Tory press
Suella Braverman, Gaza, and the Trumpification of the British Conservative party
The loneliness of progressive Israelis
Benjamin Netanyahu is a dangerous ally
Must England censor the world?
Sunday roundup: Horror without hope
American progressives do not understand the Islamist-far left alliance
"The Israeli assault on Gaza is an impossible military operation"
The BBC’s endorsement of Hamas misinformation marks the triumph of fake news
As the left prepares for power, the woke movement is crumbling
No, the UK will not abandon British Jews
“There is a subset of people who see Jews being massacred and are really excited by it”
Sunday roundup: Notes from the slaughter
Netanyahu and Trump show that you can’t fight culture wars and win actual wars
How the far right undermines trust in democracy
Whatever happens, the Jews get the blame
What is woke ideology and why is it so vicious?
Labour's thumping Scottish victory changes everything
American democracy eats itself
GB News shows how money overrides democracy
We’re all going on a witch hunt
England’s Tory tribe will destroy the country it pretends to love
Disaster Conservatism: There's nothing worth saving from the Tory years. Nothing at all
Smearing authors with any dirt that comes to hand
Rory Stewart and the death of moderate conservatism
Labour's asylum plans challenge both left and right
Stagnation nation: Is the UK’s decline unstoppable?
Conservatives will learn to regret their extremism
Elon Musk and the west’s fascist fifth column
Brexit: Why can’t we break the conspiracy of silence?
What our politicians can’t say and our media won’t report
Writing from London: Autumn plans
The left won’t allow the Trumpification of British broadcasting
Can the UK escape the curse of Brexit?
Daniel Hannan and the emptying of the Conservative mind
Yevgeny Prigozhin and the corruption of the UK
Arthur Miller, JK Rowling and the death of witch hunts
The hard questions about migration will begin when the Tory clown show ends
How running saved me from boozy lunches and obesity
You can defeat addiction by understanding it
The Conservatives have slipped their moorings and are steaming ever further to the right
Is Chinese communism stagnating?
The Donatist heresy savages the arts
How cynicism fuels populism: Playing with human rights
How to destroy the Trump personality cult
The British right stabs itself in the back
Writing from London: Free summer offer!
Best of Writing from London 2023
The triumph of the individual in occupied France and Ukraine
Paranoid seductions: Sir Roger Scruton and the hard right (Part 2)
Paranoid seductions: Sir Roger Scruton and the rise of the hard right
The UK's Conservatives have become a radical right party and aren't about to change
The UK: Must change? Won’t change!
Conservatives create a world of shadows
Conservatives on the verge of an intellectual breakdown
Hopelessness about the climate crisis threatens a new age of brutality
The diversity that matters is the diversity of ideas
A frightened Labour party will only accelerate Britain’s decline
How the Conservative "moderates" opened the door for extremists
From Russia with hate - the hang-ups of history with Jade McGlynn
Rwanda has bought Britain’s silence about its war crimes
Simplistic American notions of white privilege make no sense in the UK
The cooks, their wives, the thieves, and big brother
The incredible shrinking Sunak
This is not America! For good and ill British race relations are, well, British
How Brexit wrecked the Tory party
How not to write 5/ Don’t obey imaginary rules
Johnson may be over but populism isn’t
The guilt of rich liberals: How should we tackle the wounds of class?
Boris Johnson tried to be the British Trump – and failed
Burning Britain to the ground: The Tory party and the politics of arson
Writing from London anniversary party! Paywall down and special offers!
The Lowdown Ep 4/ The English crisis
Sunday roundup/ American cultural imperialism is not as powerful as it seems
If you’re so progressive, how come you’re so rich?
The Brexit Revolution stabs itself in the back
Imaginary fears of electoral fraud
I'll always respect Amis, the man who called out the worst of the left on Islamism
When Martin Amis took on the left
The Lowdown Episode 2: John Sweeney: "Russia's war against Ukraine is a thing of evil"
Boris Johnson’s political career died while no one was watching
The proto-fascism of Elon Musk
The British "Polycrisis": An interview with Rafael Behr
Don’t trap Ukraine in Catch-22
Ep 1: The liberal despair of Rafael Behr
Ukraine is wrecking the far-Right’s dystopia
Coming soon: The Lowdown Podcast!
The liberal despair of Rafael Behr
The coronation of Charles III: A nation yawns
Persecuting poets: the “progressive” witch hunt against Jenny Lindsay
Kemi Badenoch, Ron DeSantis and the menace of Mickey Mouse
Brexit murdered“moderate” Conservatism
"Don’t cause trouble!" The only rule of modern censorship
Russia’s homophobia shows why we need to think again about “Occidentalism”
The failure to take responsibility for Brexit is corrupting the right
The double standards of Lachlan Murdoch
Boris Johnson’s poison lives after him (Part 2)
The phoniness of the British culture war
How voter suppression came to England
Slobbery and Sycophancy: the case of Matt Goodwin
Elon Musk shows his love of free speech
Seeing Russian fascism clearly
Writing from London: The first four months
The Big Lie is in Deep Trouble: Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump and the scandalous history of libel law
Snobs vs Mobs: why the populists will win the civil war on the English right
Russia's murderous resentment: An interview with Orlando Figes
How not to write: The traps we all fall into and how to avoid them. 4/ Don't fake it
Why Donald Trump wins and Boris Johnson loses
Can Ukraine destroy Putin? The case for optimism
The Conservative Brexit taboo pushes Britain into decline
Wokeism: The movement that dare not speak its name
Can Labour expose Sunak’s panicked exploitation of the asylum crisis?
Fear has turned Rishi Sunak vicious
Christopher Hitchens in the 2020s: 1/ Whatever happened to New Atheism?
The impotence of Rupert Murdoch
Putin’s cheerleaders haven’t vanished. They’re ready to strike back
Weekend round up: Who wants to be a censor?
The death of Tory England: It’s not murder, it’s suicide
The arc of the universe bends towards craziness
How not to write: 3/ Don't let social media drive you crazy
In praise of shifty, calculating and hopelessly compromised politicians
The Conservatives ignore middle-England's concern about climate change at their peril
If electoral disaster is coming, there's nothing that Rishi Sunak can do to stop it
How not to write: The traps we all fall into and how to avoid them.
Why the Western far right supports Vladimir Putin
The spectre of Liz Truss will haunt the right
How not to write: The traps we all fall into and how to avoid them.
Right wing anger at cross-Channel migration could destroy the Tories
Christopher Hitchens: The readers speak!
The Tories in denial about the steepest national decline in 250 years
Would you order the assassination of Vladimir Putin?
Extremists ARE the conservative mainstream now
Sunday roundup: Globalism and alcoholism
Escape your worthless life! Join Putin's army for sex, money and status!
A “free-speech tsar” is an oxymoronic absurdity: You cannot impose tolerance from above
2023: This time the UK’s decline is real
Brexit is a disaster. Trump is in decline. But the radical right isn't dead.
Let them have their cake - and eat it too!
The radical right will never take responsibility for the chaos it unleashed