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Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A lovely (and funny) anecdote out of Ronald Johnson’s 1976 Vort interview, conducted by Barry Alpert (reprinted in _Ronald Johnson: Life and Works_ (National Poetry Foundation, 2008)). I would love to read a collection of the letters exchanged between Ian Hamilton Finlay and Johnson.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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New on the podcast: Ed Atkins discusses his first work of non-fiction FLOWER with Holly Pester

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: lrb.me/78d442

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November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🔴Morgan McSweeney, 'The Fraud' and The Takeover of the Labour Party

Investigative journalist Paul Holden joins @ollyhaynes.bsky.social to talk about his new book, 'The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy'

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/morgan-mcs...
Morgan McSweeney, 'The Fraud' and The Takeover of the Labour Party
Investigative journalist Paul Holden joins Olly Haynes to talk about his new book, 'The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy'
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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‘Palestinians are told to wait for the next stage of the plan, while Israel’s gains become the baseline for the next round of negotiations. And the waiting never ends. Each phase is temporary, but every loss is permanent.’

Zinaida Miller on Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller | Temporary Measures
The Yellow Line is supposed to be temporary, but history suggests otherwise. Under ostensibly transient arrangements,...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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❄️WINTER READING SALE ❄️

We’re running a winter sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. GMT on 19 December, with a 30 per cent discount across our website, including Fiction, Essay, Classics and Poetry titles, subscriptions, collections and tote bags.
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Shop now: bit.ly/4oRFpxc
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk

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Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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This is a vital essay by @johnspringford.bsky.social & @acjsissons.bsky.social - diagnosing the British malaise and providing a set of clear policy solutions. You will be much better informed for having read it getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:

It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)

It shows no understanding of why there is AS

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Morally awful, administratively impossible & expensive.. and politically, the reverse of Starmer's panicked conference speech. A govt completely at sea, terrified & incoherent, throwing basic principles overboard in desperation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza
My first memory of Gaza is an airstrike. My second is an Israeli checkpoint. My third is of frequent demonstrations. And my fourth is of my overcrowded UNRWA school for Palestinian refugees. Gaza i…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe."

Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Violence and the Sacred | Ryan Ruby
Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core than humanists would have us believe.
thebaffler.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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No paywall.

Nice bit of Hamlet and Pog.

open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In memory: Ian Hamilton Finlay, b. October 28, 1925
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Was especially excited to write a bit about the sleeper hit of this year's festival: Lucrecia Martel's Nuestra Tierra
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM