I am a historian and writer living and occasionally working in the United Kingdom. This page collects together a lot of different things; I’ll aim to cover issues relating to history, contemporary politics (mostly UK), and other cultural issues and oddities. This is not ‘ride-along’ commentary. My aim is to try and provide detailed reflections and discussion of history and politics from the white heat of the neoliberal feedback loop. Inasmuch as I have a clear sense of what history is, I’m going to defer to Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’ (1942) where he imagines this from the perspective of ‘the Angel of History’, ‘Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet’.
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