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Since I see we’re at the “sharing recipes for chicken stock” stage of supposedly feeding the poor, I think it’s a good time to point out that as of March

It’s almost as if we’re now seeing exactly where the sneering dismissal of any statement of basic ethics and justice as “virtue signalling” ends up.https://twitter.com/florencehrs/status/1319685666003947521 It’s hideous (and yet e

Feel it’s important to point out, while everyone fiddles with the government career generator or whatever it is, that I already *have* another job, in addition to being a writer,

As far as I can see at this point, literary prizes are in a mess, and a lot of the mess comes from the fact that they still insist on

This interview with Michel Faber adds to my growing sense that the inherent shortcomings of realism are going to be a major literary preoccupation over the next few years. I

We’ve reached such a dark moment. It’s so tempting to be flippant about this, to just kind of brush it off as stupidity, but honestly I find it terrifying on

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past year, which for me at least is a useful, albeit difficult lens through which to consider many of the conversations

Never seen such a concerted effort on the part of established/embedded (and overwhelmingly white) columnists to reduce everything to “identity politics”, “cancel culture” and “opinion”. Both disengenuous and dangerous in

Your literary agent represents you and your work, indeed champions you and your work, to the rest of the publishing industry and beyond. If you felt that your literary agency

I think we can all agree that it’s a precarious moment for the arts. I don’t think, though, that that precarity is solely financial, I think it’s existential too, and

Seeing a lot of people saying that the government are lifting lockdown early to distract from the Cummings story. I see the logic in it, but I think it’s the

I’m sorry but has everyone lost their fucking mind. What about when parliament was illegally suspended and not only did no-one face any legal consequences the same government was voted