Niall Gooch
@niallgooch.bsky.social
Medium-sized bureaucratic cog. Also Christian, husband, father, writer, seaside dweller. Not sure what I'll do here but it will be more chill than my Twitter. I like cricket, history, the countryside, poetry, films, and classic detective stories.
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Discomfit them, O Lord, that trust to their own multitude and strength,
And forget not that thou art even He, our God,
Which destroyest wars from the beginning ...
A haunting anthem, a petition of the Elizabethan Church in a time of fear and uncertainty.
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And forget not that thou art even He, our God,
Which destroyest wars from the beginning ...
A haunting anthem, a petition of the Elizabethan Church in a time of fear and uncertainty.
youtu.be/blzCXq1fZEU?...
Discomfort them, O Lord
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November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Discomfit them, O Lord, that trust to their own multitude and strength,
And forget not that thou art even He, our God,
Which destroyest wars from the beginning ...
A haunting anthem, a petition of the Elizabethan Church in a time of fear and uncertainty.
youtu.be/blzCXq1fZEU?...
And forget not that thou art even He, our God,
Which destroyest wars from the beginning ...
A haunting anthem, a petition of the Elizabethan Church in a time of fear and uncertainty.
youtu.be/blzCXq1fZEU?...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Finished copies!!! Aren’t they stunning?
September 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Finished copies!!! Aren’t they stunning?
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The Caroline modernisation programme is troubling. The Firm could alienate its natural supporters while failing to mollify its critics | Niall Gooch
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Scrapping the Royal Train is a symbol of the monarchy’s demise
Until quite recently I was very confident that the monarchy would survive for the foreseeable future. Polling suggested that support for a republic was becalmed at around 20%, although always higher…
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July 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Caroline modernisation programme is troubling. The Firm could alienate its natural supporters while failing to mollify its critics | Niall Gooch
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New on the Substack: "The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison" niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-detect... In which I discuss highbrow disdain for whodunits, among several other things, including the detective stories of Fr Ronald Knox (mostly fair to middling).
The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison
Can whodunits ever be serious novels?
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June 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
New on the Substack: "The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison" niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-detect... In which I discuss highbrow disdain for whodunits, among several other things, including the detective stories of Fr Ronald Knox (mostly fair to middling).
New on the Substack: "The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison" niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-detect... In which I discuss highbrow disdain for whodunits, among several other things, including the detective stories of Fr Ronald Knox (mostly fair to middling).
The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison
Can whodunits ever be serious novels?
niallgooch.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
New on the Substack: "The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison" niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-detect... In which I discuss highbrow disdain for whodunits, among several other things, including the detective stories of Fr Ronald Knox (mostly fair to middling).
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Doctor Who has always been political, but it's only in recent years that the BBC show's moral lectures have become suffocating | Niall Gooch
Doctor Who lost its way years before Ncuti Gatwa
The first episode of Doctor Who I can ever remember watching involved Third Doctor Jon Pertwee rushing around a quarry in Wales, trying to see off an infestation of giant man-killing maggots that had…
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June 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Doctor Who has always been political, but it's only in recent years that the BBC show's moral lectures have become suffocating | Niall Gooch
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May 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Don’t forget about our spring sale! For the week there will be 20% off our Mini Guide range. Our A5 sized Mini Guides each explore the modernist buildings of a particular location or architect. See the full range here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/mini-guides....
Mini Guides
We are pleased to introduce our Mini Guides. The Mini Guides will feature the modernist buildings of a particular location or architect. They are A5 size and include text and colour images of the...
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May 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Don’t forget about our spring sale! For the week there will be 20% off our Mini Guide range. Our A5 sized Mini Guides each explore the modernist buildings of a particular location or architect. See the full range here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/mini-guides....
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"It is good that young men prize stamina and skill. It is good that they want to push boundaries and impose themselves on the world and impress girls." My latest at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on the case for teenage boys. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...
In defence of teenage boys
Horatio Nelson passed his examination for lieutenant on 9 April 1777 (possibly with a little help from his uncle, who was one third of the examining panel). He was then just 18 and a half years old, a...
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April 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"It is good that young men prize stamina and skill. It is good that they want to push boundaries and impose themselves on the world and impress girls." My latest at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on the case for teenage boys. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...
"It is good that young men prize stamina and skill. It is good that they want to push boundaries and impose themselves on the world and impress girls." My latest at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on the case for teenage boys. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...
In defence of teenage boys
Horatio Nelson passed his examination for lieutenant on 9 April 1777 (possibly with a little help from his uncle, who was one third of the examining panel). He was then just 18 and a half years old, a...
www.spectator.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"It is good that young men prize stamina and skill. It is good that they want to push boundaries and impose themselves on the world and impress girls." My latest at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on the case for teenage boys. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...
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I found this blogpost very interesting and broadly persuasive, even as an old books romantic. It's notable, for example, how the use of the use of genetics in archaeology is shining a new light on old arguments about the size of population movements.
This week on the blog, I court controversy by suggesting that our understanding of history has in fact improved over the decades #history #academia
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Never Trust Any Work of History Over the Age of Fifty!: Or, Please Stop Citing Edward Gibbon to Try to Win Arguments on the Internet
When I first began marking undergraduate essays, I noticed a curious phenomenon in the footnotes. In place of the cutting-edge reading list that I had painstakingly assembled, all accessible either…
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March 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I found this blogpost very interesting and broadly persuasive, even as an old books romantic. It's notable, for example, how the use of the use of genetics in archaeology is shining a new light on old arguments about the size of population movements.
I found this blogpost very interesting and broadly persuasive, even as an old books romantic. It's notable, for example, how the use of the use of genetics in archaeology is shining a new light on old arguments about the size of population movements.
This week on the blog, I court controversy by suggesting that our understanding of history has in fact improved over the decades #history #academia
salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/n...
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Never Trust Any Work of History Over the Age of Fifty!: Or, Please Stop Citing Edward Gibbon to Try to Win Arguments on the Internet
When I first began marking undergraduate essays, I noticed a curious phenomenon in the footnotes. In place of the cutting-edge reading list that I had painstakingly assembled, all accessible either…
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March 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I found this blogpost very interesting and broadly persuasive, even as an old books romantic. It's notable, for example, how the use of the use of genetics in archaeology is shining a new light on old arguments about the size of population movements.
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Part 2 of this series, The Case Of The Implausibly Slow Inspector. niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-case-o... On a pleasant but unremarkable mystery, The Sussex Downs Murder.
The case of the implausibly slow Inspector
"The Sussex Downs Murder" and the leisurely conventions of the Golden Age
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March 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Part 2 of this series, The Case Of The Implausibly Slow Inspector. niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-case-o... On a pleasant but unremarkable mystery, The Sussex Downs Murder.
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“Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.”
St. Seraphim of Sarov
St. Seraphim of Sarov
March 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.”
St. Seraphim of Sarov
St. Seraphim of Sarov
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And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and succour all them, who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity ...
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Pope 'remains critical' after 'respiratory crisis'
Pope Francis is "more unwell than yesterday", the Vatican says, adding his prognosis "remains guarded".
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February 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and succour all them, who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity ...
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"It is this glimpse of the pattern of shipboard life - the small community of men working together skilfully to achieve a mission - that holds part of the key to the film’s enduring popularity."
"Don't forget your old shipmates". An appreciation of Master And Commander from a couple of years back. niallgooch.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Don't forget your old shipmates
The enduring charm of Master And Commander (NB: contains spoilers for those who haven't seen it)
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January 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"It is this glimpse of the pattern of shipboard life - the small community of men working together skilfully to achieve a mission - that holds part of the key to the film’s enduring popularity."
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New on the stack, an essay on one of my favourite Agatha Christie bookshops, A Murder Is Announced. niallgooch.substack.com/p/nobody-kno... "Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is".
Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is
Notes on "A Murder Is Announced"
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February 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New on the stack, an essay on one of my favourite Agatha Christie bookshops, A Murder Is Announced. niallgooch.substack.com/p/nobody-kno... "Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is".
New on the stack, an essay on one of my favourite Agatha Christie bookshops, A Murder Is Announced. niallgooch.substack.com/p/nobody-kno... "Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is".
Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is
Notes on "A Murder Is Announced"
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February 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New on the stack, an essay on one of my favourite Agatha Christie bookshops, A Murder Is Announced. niallgooch.substack.com/p/nobody-kno... "Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is".
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"Don't forget your old shipmates". An appreciation of Master And Commander from a couple of years back. niallgooch.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Don't forget your old shipmates
The enduring charm of Master And Commander (NB: contains spoilers for those who haven't seen it)
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January 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Don't forget your old shipmates". An appreciation of Master And Commander from a couple of years back. niallgooch.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
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The King's respect and love for the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition is a joy to behold. It should be a cause of great pride for those of us who are British.
January 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The King's respect and love for the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition is a joy to behold. It should be a cause of great pride for those of us who are British.
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Couple of pieces I think about a lot.
One from the New York Times in 2018.
In Praise of Mediocrity.
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One from the New York Times in 2018.
In Praise of Mediocrity.
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/o...
December 31, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Couple of pieces I think about a lot.
One from the New York Times in 2018.
In Praise of Mediocrity.
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/o...
One from the New York Times in 2018.
In Praise of Mediocrity.
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/o...
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Food £200
Data £150
Rent £800
Whimsical household inventions £3,600
Utility £150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my dog is mad at me
Data £150
Rent £800
Whimsical household inventions £3,600
Utility £150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my dog is mad at me
December 27, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Food £200
Data £150
Rent £800
Whimsical household inventions £3,600
Utility £150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my dog is mad at me
Data £150
Rent £800
Whimsical household inventions £3,600
Utility £150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my dog is mad at me
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18
‘Christmas Time’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Christmas Time’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 18, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18
‘Christmas Time’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Christmas Time’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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"A Disappearance". One of my ghost stories. niallgooch.substack.com/p/a-disappea...
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December 11, 2024 at 2:43 PM
"A Disappearance". One of my ghost stories. niallgooch.substack.com/p/a-disappea...