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JD Vance and the Radicalisation of the American Right
The senator from Ohio is the plaything of a billionaire class with reservations about democracy
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James Bloodworth
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January 2024

Note for paying subscribers - billing paused until the 18th of March
I need to finish my book
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James Bloodworth
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December 2023

Ricky Gervais is a reactionary bore
You can't say that anymore and yet you just did
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James Bloodworth
The insurgent Right and the politics of envy
The culture war as status contest
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James Bloodworth
The Kissinger Myth and why we owe it to his victims to demolish it
It falls to the living to drown out the sycophantic chorus
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James Bloodworth
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November 2023

On not letting Covid-19 revisionists re-write history
Plus some newsletter updates
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James Bloodworth
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Those calling for a 'negotiated settlement' should say what they really mean
Surrendering large swathes of Ukrainian land to Russia would not end the bloodshed
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James Bloodworth
Orwell, the author who ‘quarried his way down into the heart of the human condition’
Book Review: Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor
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James Bloodworth
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Conservatives loathe the society they’ve created
It's easier to ferment conspiracies than to address the big capitalist elephant in the room
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James Bloodworth
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October 2023

For Palestine but against rationalisation
I don’t believe that ‘death to the Jews’ is a cry against poverty and oppression
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James Bloodworth
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How not to grieve
Goodbye darkness my old friend
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James Bloodworth
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As long as they hate us, they must be right
The appalling reaction of some progressives to the massacre of innocents has been decades in the making
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