Chris Smaje

Another book review while it’s fresh in my mind, this time Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Penguin, 2025).

I mentioned that I was going to reproduce my article in The Land 37 here.

Following my obituary for The Land magazine in my previous post I’d intended to publish in this next one my article on landlordism that appeared in the final issue.

Just a short post to mark the passing of the great Land magazine, which has shut up shop with its 37th issue this summer.

A few further thoughts in this post on the matter of the state – what it is, what its past and future involves, and what does it mean to live within the jurisdiction of a singular state (‘the state I’m in’)?

Apologies for my slow turnover of blog posts here, which is likely to be ongoing.

Every year I take a look at the annual energy data published toward the end of June by the Energy Institute in order to ask the big question: Has the energy transition that everyone keeps talking about actually started yet?

This week sees a more personal anniversary for me than the Brexit celebrations/recriminations last time: it’s three years since I published my book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future.

There are a few anniversaries in the air at the moment.

In this post I reflect on the main things I think will be necessary for ‘surviving the future’, to channel David Fleming.

Sorry I’ve been so silent here of late.

Apologies that I’m not finding much time at the moment to write new blog posts, a situation that will probably continue for a while.