About me: starting in 2020 I became interested in the Marxian tradition of philosophy and politics.

After a series of protests during the UK government’s COVID lockdowns, in which iconoclasm, authoritarianism and a general anti-Britishness seemed to be becoming openly endorsed, I decided to begin getting my thoughts down in a number of essays. Iconoclasm was however, simply an act that removed imagistic representations, whereas throughout history iconoclasm had been seen alongside much broader shifts in values, philosophy and religion. I steadily became aware that there was ‘a book in here’, but it was only from July 2021 that I began seriously reading Hegel and Marx in an effort to understand their style and philosophy. This enabled me to move onto reading intellectuals such as: Derrida, Foucault, Horkheimer and Adorno, and others. What became clear was that methodologies and ideas developed by Marx were being reapplied, though with some changes. That broad investigation produced my debut book, The Revolutionary Renaissance, in which I traced the dialectical evolution of Marx’s philosophy into the present day.

In my free time, most years I manage to take a few weeks to tour on my motorcycle, often with friends though I have done a number of solo tours. The most memorable began in England’s midlands and took me all the way to Norway’s Lofoten Islands, camping and cooking on the fly. On the inevitable day where I was utterly drenched and when the tent got wet it was time for a stop-off in Å to rest up for a day. The entire journey I revelled in the staggering scenery of the mountains meeting the sea with the road snaking between, skipping from Andøya to Senja, a lovely island I had to myself, then up past Tromø before heading home. Until I return to Norway, most of my tours are closer to home in the Lake District, Wales and Scotland.