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Orwell Prize Long-list
Island Story has been long-listed for the Orwell Prize for political writing. It has sneakily gatecrashed into an impressive party. Many thanks to everyone who has enjoyed the book and supported it....
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Dr Taylor
I am now a fully-fledged doctor, after I passed my PhD viva exam without corrections last week. I was examined by Étienne Balibar and Beth Lord who both put forward rigorous and stimulating questions....
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Island Story Short-listed
Remarkably, Island Story: Journeys Through Unfamiliar Britain has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for best political writing, 2017. There has obviously been some confusion or administrative...
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OECD Forum 2017
This week I spoke at the OECD Forum 2017 in Paris about the geographies of discontent, and about my book Island Story. It was such an unexpected honour to be invited, and the conversations I had over...
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State of the nation
‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.’ – Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks. There...
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Audio essay
“A tale of two countries” is the title of an audio essay I’ve put together for an exhibition opening today Up North in an abandoned boozer. It’s a rough attempt to try to put across some feelings and...
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Displace
‘How do we even begin to have a conversation about the gargantuan problems of finite resources, personal ethics and social change in a framework that renders an individual life seemingly powerless?’...
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K Blundell Award
Some wonderful news: I have received one of the K Blundell Trust’s awards to help complete my next book. The Trust gives grants to British authors aged below 40 whose works aim to increase social...
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Spinoza in London
From next Monday I’m teaching a 12-week course on the philosophy of Spinoza that’s open to the public. It will explore Spinoza’s Ethics in depth, as well as the Theological-Political Treatise and its...
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Four Conversations
I’m speaking this Sunday afternoon in London at Conway Hall, ‘Four Conversations: A United Kingdom?’, at the Bloomsbury Festival. The theme is nationalism and identity, explored from four different...
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