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1 week ago | 
the-londoner.co.uk | Huw Lemmey
London's most infamous estate is being modernised. But can it ever truly shake its reputation, wonders Huw Lemmey. If you haven't already, you can become one of our founding members by subscribing to The Londoner with our forever 20% early-bird discount. Click here to forever get an annual membership for the discounted price of £71.20, or click here to forever get a monthly membership for £7.16. Hurry though — this offer lasts only until the end of April. Dolphin Square is changing.
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2 weeks ago | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Huw Lemmey
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals by Maurice J. Casey is published by Footnote Press (2024). There is an apocryphal story that when asked by US diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1972 what he thought was the impact of the French Revolution, the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai replied that it was too early to say.
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2 months ago | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Huw Lemmey
There is an apocryphal story that when asked by US diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1972 what he thought was the impact of the French Revolution, the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai replied that it was too early to say.
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2 months ago | 
danhancox.substack.com | Dan Hancox |Huw Lemmey
On a warm afternoon last September, I met on the beach in Banyuls-sur-Mer, to do something I’d been wanting to do for a while: hike the ‘Camino Walter Benjamin’ from Banyuls to Portbou in Catalunya — the path which follows the perilous, tragically fatal last steps he took through the Pyrenees, trying to escape from the Nazis in 1940.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
danhancox.substack.com | Dan Hancox |Huw Lemmey
First, some quick housekeeping: my new book, MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World, is out very soon — on Tuesday 22 October 2024. You can pre-order it now. And if you’re in London this month, please do come and see me speaking about riots, protests, carnivals, fascists, revolutionaries, moshing, policing, crushes, and crowd joy, rage and psychology. Ticket links below. 🟡 The Multitudes launch is at Conway Hall on Sun 20 October at 3pm. Tickets.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
huw.substack.com | Huw Lemmey
Jacob Elordi as Felix Catton in Saltburn“Everybody hates a tourist,” whimpers Jarvis Cocker into his microphone, “especially one who thinks it’s all such a laugh.” He releases a tight, sardonic giggle. Yeah. Sure. And “the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath”. The camera pans across the crowd. 100,000 people standing in a field.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Huw Lemmey
It is ironic that one of the great challenges of political activism across borders is taking the obscure complexities of a globalised economy and making them legible and local. Even today, with so much direct visual evidence of exploitation and violence at our fingertips, apologists are quick to tell us that any given situation of which we don’t have first-hand knowledge is simply too complex for us to really grasp.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
huw.substack.com | Huw Lemmey
I recall reading some years ago a book by the Italian philosopher Franco Berardi. What is attractive to me about his thought is precisely the thing that others hate — that he is a far from systematic thinker. To my mind, that is a plus, but then I have a far from systematic mind. He is in good company. Walter Benjamin, Simone Weil, John Berger and so on are far from systematic, but rather are generative, responsive, productive.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
extraextramagazine.com | Huw Lemmey
In recent decades the medieval Italian poet and writer Christine de Pizan has been the subject of renewed interest, motivated by a feminist reappraisal of this remarkable, pioneering author who was as skilled in the business and politics of publishing as she was in her occupation as a courtly writer.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
gcn.ie | Ben Miller |Huw Lemmey |Richard Plant |Kim Heyam
Be sure to keep room on your bookshelf for all of these fabulously queer history books!Books4 August, 2023. Written by Ethan Moser. While Pride month might officially be over, it’s still important to keep your bookshelf as diverse as possible throughout the rest of 2023. If you’re eager to learn more about LGBTQ+ history, the following five books can help you brush up on your knowledge before Pride next year.
