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My only excuse is that I ran out of room…

For MediaCat Magazine, I wrote about the survival and flourishing of print media, the lack of trust in business, the symbiosis of advertising and political campaigning, and the magic of cinema mediacat.uk/how-print-ma...

For Whitehot Magazine, I wrote about sculpture hard and soft, the ‘expanded field’, textiles, and the art/craft hierarchy in a review of group show Thread Count whitehotmagazine.com/articles/que...

For @engelsbergideas.bsky.social, I wrote about imaginary libriaries, feat. lost libraries, the Bible, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Donne, Borges, Márquez, Harry Potter and Star Wars &c engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

For @engelsbergideas.bsky.social, I wrote about Paradise Lost's 'boundless Continent' of blank verse, Milton's beef with 'jingling', English prosody, Campion v Daniel, Dryden rewriting Milton, Marvell's Dryden diss &c engelsbergideas.com/essays/parad...

For @engelsbergideas.bsky.social, I wrote about philosophies of sport, feat. Plato, athletic monks, John Milton 'unsweating...regularly', James Milner b2b Georg Hegel, Adorno's anti-football, Zidane's headbutt, Mourinho's affects & more engelsbergideas.com/essays/sport...

For @engelsbergideas.bsky.social, I wrote about the Safavid polymath Mullā Ṣadrā's life, career and ‘transcendent philosophy’, with connections to Western philosophers including Aquinas, Kant, Leibniz and Heidegger engelsbergideas.com/portraits/mu...

For @engelsbergideas.bsky.social, I wrote about the forgotten art of memory, feat. Hamlet, Cicero, digital dementia, Homer, Socrates' fear that writing caused forgetfulness, Proust, Islamic ḥuffāẓ, Australian 'songlines', West African griots, and 'cloud' storage engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

For Perspective Magazine, I wrote about class anxiety/ambiguity; growing up poor & getting a posh education; Orwell & Thatcher; Lady Bird, Saltburn & Normal People; the British Social Attitudes survey; code-switching; property, landlordism, inheritance &c www.perspectivemedia.com/muddle-class/

For @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I also wrote about forgiveness in the age of apology, feat. Phil Schofield's vape, disgraced MPs, water companies, footballers on IG, wobbly lecterns, & political (un)forgiveness from lex talionis to Russia–Ukraine & Israel–Gaza www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6567...

For @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I wrote about 'The lucrative pursuit of happiness', the oil and gas of the soul, feat. McKinsey, Aristotle, Oprah, al-Fārābī, John Locke, New Labour, Gen Z, and the trillion-dollar 'wellness market' www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...

George Rawlins kindly invited me to provide an Afterword for the second printing of Cheapside Afterlife (Longleaf Press), his magnificent sonnet sequence reimagining the life of Thomas Chatterton.

In January, I wrote 'An apology for January' for @thefence.bsky.social, explaining why the first month is the best of the year, feat. the 'blue monday' myth, Susan Sontag, Edmund Spenser, the American ruination of October &c www.the-fence.com/an-apology-f...

This year, I finished my PhD @uclofficial.bsky.social. Sadly, my thesis title didn't attract a global far-right abuse campaign, but I remain hopeful that it might offend a Greek statue twitter account sometime soon.

Thank you!

I would love to see a PL puppet show!