Month: July 2026

An ocean away from BST and somehow still thinking about the noise complaints It has been raining properly in Portland for three straight days, the specific grey, patient kind of…

Twenty five thousand people playing outdoor chess in my old city apparently woke something up here too Word of ChessFest reached me here in Portland mostly through friends back home…

Trying to describe the monarchy to a genuinely baffled American left wing book club is harder than it sounds My Portland book club, a genuinely lovely, thoroughly left leaning group…

Different city, same specific flavour of landlord deflection I went to a Portland tenants’ rights meeting this week, entirely unrelated to anything happening back in London, and found myself laughing…

Megan reads national fracture as class contradiction Read the latest on Celtexit over coffee this morning and immediately clocked it for what it is, a nationalist distraction dressed up as…

Megan on Guardian pay and the limits of self-critique Read that Guardian CEO pay has hit five million pounds and felt the specific fatigue of watching a supposedly progressive institution…

Megan finds a strange sort of clarity in collapse Read that Spain has filed for bankruptcy and thought, briefly, that at least a bankruptcy filing is honest about what it…

Megan finds a useful metaphor in ancient patience Read the piece on the Greek gods applauding The Odyssey and thought about how honest that story is about delay, ten years,…

Megan’s Friday round-up, theory and all Closed the week having read entirely too much on Britain’s economic decline, a story that, once you strip the euphemism out of it, is…

Diary entry exploring Marx analysis and contemporary labor dynamics through lived experience working minimum wage retail job Behind the Register I’ve been working retail for two years, and lately the…