Books
Raphael Samuel, Workshop of the World: Essays in People's History, edited and introduced by John Merrick, Verso, 2024.

2025
On Correlli Barnett, the prophet of the new right – New Statesman
On Rick Stein, Englishness and fatherhood – Vittles
On Elon Musk – Break–Down
On Jonathan Bowden – Jacobin
On Liverpool and decline – History Today

2024
On HS2 and regional inequality – 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, again (German translation) – Jacobin

On Barry Hines and nature writing – Baffler

On Orbán and Hungarian conservatism – The Fence, issue 11

On Hamid Ismailov – NLR Sidecar

On Our Friends in the North  - Guardian

2021

On home, exile, and the impossibility of working-class achievement – Soft Punk

On the afterlife of the enclosures and the politics of nineteenth-century realism – Baffler

The novels of Sylvia Townsend Warner – Tribune

On care work and deindustrialisation – Baffler

On culture and class: a postmortem of the 20th-century democratisation of art - Soft Punk

On Michael Apted’s 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