Books
Raphael Samuel, Workshop of the World: Essays in People's History, edited and introduced by John Merrick, Verso, 2024.
2025
On Correlli Barnett – New Statesman
On Rick Stein – Vittles
On Elon Musk – Break–Down
On Liverpool – History Today
On the landlord economy – Jacobin #58
2024
On HS2 – New Statesman
On publishing, and boring novels – New Humanist
On the new British right – New Statesman
On leaving home – Guardian
2023
On Alan Garner – The Point
On Nothern modernism – Jacobin
2022
On Terry Eagleton – Baffler
On the Royal Family (German translation) – Jacobin
On Barry Hines – Baffler
On Orbán – The Fence, issue 11
On Hamid Ismailov – NLR Sidecar
On Our Friends in the North - Guardian
2021
On the impossibility of working-class achievement – Soft Punk
On realism – Baffler
On Sylvia Townsend Warner – Tribune
On deindustrialisation – Baffler
On culture and class - Soft Punk
On Up - Jacobin
2020
On David Edgerton’s The Rise and Fall of the British Nation (Spanish translation) - New Left Review
On plagues, progress and history – Boston Review