Essay on Frantz Fanon for Unherd https://unherd.com/2021/03/the-black-saint-against-white-guilt/
Review of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography
Review of Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth in the Evening Standard https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/books/philip-roth-biography-blake-bailey-review-b925109.html
Review of Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Review of Yaa Gyasi’s novel ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ for The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/transcendent-kingdom-by-yaa-gyasi-review-3wkrwdsc7
Essay on the link between Puritanism and the defence of freedom of speech
I’ve written an essay for unherd on the link between Puritanism and support for freedom of speech https://unherd.com/2021/02/free-speech-warriors-are-the-real-puritans/
Review of Remi Adekoya’s ‘Biracial Britain’
My review of Remi Adekoya’s new book in the Evening Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/books/biracial-britain-mixedrace-remi-adekoya-review-b699865.html?__twitter_impression=true
Essay on Adam Curtis, VS Naipaul, and Michael X
An essay by me on Michael X, VS Naipaul, and Adam Curtis https://unherd.com/2021/02/was-michael-x-a-gangster-or-a-madman/?=frlh
Review of Kehinde Andrews’s ‘The New Age of Empire’
I’ve written a review of Kehinde Andrews’s new book ‘The New Age of Empire’ for the Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/there-s-nothing-a-white-person-can-do-about-racism-says-dr-kehinde-andrews
Wayne Rooney and Chaucer
I’ve written a piece about Wayne Rooney https://unherd.com/thepost/wayne-rooney-chaucerian-hero/
Christian origins of liberalism
I’ve written a piece for Unherd about the Christian origins of liberalism https://unherd.com/2021/01/thank-god-for-liberalism/
Anti-semitism, structural racism, and the Labour Party
I’ve written a piece about the limitations of a solely structural definition of racism for Unherd https://unherd.com/2020/11/the-dangerous-logic-of-anti-racism/
