Mary Harrington

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Provincial mummy blogger. Rep: Matthew Hamilton. Speaking: [email protected]

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Farage won't break Britain’s doom loop

1 week ago | unherd.com | Mary Harrington

Boris JohnsonboriswaveCivil WarConservative partyImmigrationkemi badenochLabourSocietyUK Kemi Badenoch has only been Tory leader for about 10 minutes, but insiders are briefing against her already. The confected kerfuffle about her private Jag risking national security stinks of frenemies on the move and is only the latest in a drip-drip of undermining allegations. Meanwhile even her supporters complain of her agonising slowness in coming up with anything resembling a policy.
The AI Pork Prism

2 weeks ago | maryharrington.co.uk | Mary Harrington

This famous copypasta captures something I have spent years struggling to find words for: the intuition that there is something violent in the destruction of a thing’s inherent form. But there are many assumptions already at work here: not least the intuition that there’s even such a thing as an inherent form, a view both widely held and also low-status.
Bidengate is the anti-Watergate

2 weeks ago | unherd.com | Mary Harrington

DemocratsJoe BidenPoliticsUSWatergate The media loves to self-mythologise. It sees itself as the body crucially responsible for “speaking truth to power”. This self-image crystallised in the aftermath of Watergate; in it, the press served as bold, brave, fearless, and non-partisan defenders of truth and the ordinary man.
Bidengate is the anti-Watergate

2 weeks ago | share.google | Mary Harrington

DemocratsJoe BidenPoliticsUSWatergate The media loves to self-mythologise. It sees itself as the body crucially responsible for “speaking truth to power”. This self-image crystallised in the aftermath of Watergate; in it, the press served as bold, brave, fearless, and non-partisan defenders of truth and the ordinary man.
Technologies of acedia

3 weeks ago | maryharrington.co.uk | Mary Harrington

I quit smoking more than 15 years ago, which means I’ve now been an ex-smoker for longer than I was a smoker. Or am I actually an ex-smoker? In the years since, I’ve sometimes wondered if it was less the year I spent nicotine gum that helped me over the line than another, concurrent lifestyle change: getting an iPhone, and swapping my nicotine addiction for compulsive absorption in the multiverse of my phone. Smoking and smartphones obviously aren’t identical. But there are so many parallels.
The decline of Ye West

3 weeks ago | unherd.com | Mary Harrington

DeclinediverseKanye WestNazismOswald SpenglerPoliticsRomanticismThe West In Munich, in the fractured aftermath of the First World War, an impoverished writer published what would become one of the most famous works of cultural analysis of the 20th century.
American Hope

4 weeks ago | maryharrington.co.uk | Mary Harrington

The new Pope is American. Robert Prevost, now Leo XIV, is a Chicago-born Augustinian friar, who spent much of his ministry in Peru. I wish him grace as he takes up the task of leadership in these turbulent times. The immediate online response to his announcement yesterday, across both sides of the culture war, was striking: a frenzied rummaging in rumour, social media, and previous utterances for where the new Pope might stand on political matters, especially immigration and “gender”.
What's the point of VE Day?

1 month ago | unherd.com | Mary Harrington

EuropeSecond World WarSocietySpitfireUKVE DayVeterans Though the Second World War was never fought on British land, only in the skies overhead, the country’s fabric is marked by the conflict in innumerable ways. Near my home is a stretch of woodland I often run through with the dog. In 1945, an Allied plane crashed among its trees, killing several of the men on board. To this day, local legend has it that visitors to the crash site will hear voices or coughing, or smell smoke.
The Female Gaze

1 month ago | maryharrington.co.uk | Mary Harrington

This week in silly internet discourse, the singer Olly Murs got fit, and posted Before and After shots. Then the psychologist William Costello posted the shots, and polled men and women on which looked better. More men chose the After shot, but vastly more women chose the Before. Cue pandemonium, including a lot of mensaying the women who claim to prefer “Before” are lying. But what if they’re not?
Is the global Right giving up on Trump?

1 month ago | unherd.com | Mary Harrington

Donald TrumpFirst 100 daysMAGANew world orderPoliticssouthern borderUS Considering his recent antics have taken tens of thousands off the retirement savings of some in Britain, and led others to fear World War III is about to break out, it’s rare to find anyone now who has no opinion on the second Presidency of Donald Trump. Of course he’s always been a polarising figure. But I don’t remember him being quite this universally enraging last time round.

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I often think of the Oxford Eng Lit Professor who told me on no account to do graduate work, but to “work hard, get your First, and shove off” I wondered for 15 years if I was right to take his advice, but now I feel only boundless gratitude for his prescience and honesty