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London, Merseyside County, UK, United Kingdom
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Covers:  Literature, art, culture, history, politics, football &c
Writer/academic ⁍ PhD (UCL) ⁍ Author: UNPOSSIBLE HISTORY (Palgrave ⏰) ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, Times, Telegraph &c ⁍ Ed @NewCritique ⁍ YNWA

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Writer and editor. Bylines: New Statesman, The Times, The Spectator, The Fence, The London Magazine, Engelsberg Ideas, Time Out London, Business Insider, Review 31, & others.

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Will your purpose survive a crisis?

Will your purpose survive a crisis?

This 900-word article, commissioned for Raconteur's Future CMO special report and published in The Times, exa…

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13 great things to do on Royal College Street, Camden

13 great things to do on Royal College Street, Camden

This is one of many area guides I was commissioned to research and write for Time Out London, including: Camd…

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Jordan Peterson and the cult of tidiness

Jordan Peterson and the cult of tidiness

The world is obsessed with clutter. Today, untidiness is seen as a moral failure and messy people are cast as…

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An ode to the corner shop, the underrated glue holding London together

An ode to the corner shop, the underrated glue holding London together

Feature commission for Time Out London

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Essay | Sting in the North? by Josh Mcloughlin - The London Magazine

Essay | Sting in the North? by Josh Mcloughlin - The London Magazine

'There is [...] a real difference between North and South', George Orwell said in The Road to Wigan Pier (193…

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Life on the Cut

Life on the Cut

One of seven features commissioned for The Fence Magazine.

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Why British academics like me are quitting

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Why British academics like me are quitting

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Josh McLoughlin said commuting to a job would have cost him more than his earnings from teaching Have you decided to leave your job at a British university? Get in touch with us at money@telegraph.co.uk*. In 2024, I completed my PhD at University College London. I was lucky enough to win a prestigious funding grant, without which I could not have studied for a doctorate, and I secured a contract with a respected academic publisher for a monograph based on my PhD.
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The lost art of chorography

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‘This dear, dear land.’ John of Gaunt’s death-bed elegy for ‘this sceptred isle’ in Richard II (1597) is one of the most famous speeches in Shakespeare. Still quoted 400 years later – as patriotism or critique in wartime propaganda, television dramas, parliamentary speeches and anti-littering adverts – ‘this England’ is a classic political setpiece.
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