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Welcome to my world

A collection of writing, from science fiction through politics to medieval history, with some bits and bobs thrown in for good measure.

Author Elaine Graham-LeighPosted on March 20, 2017Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Welcome to my world

The Night They Sacked New Rome – review

The Night They Sacked New Rome – review

A ‘real-time’ review, no less:

https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/theakers-quarterly-fiction-59/

Author Elaine Graham-LeighPosted on July 16, 2019Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The Night They Sacked New Rome – review

The problem with citizens’ assemblies

The problem with citizens’ assemblies

A look at the idea’s limitations.

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/20416-the-problem-with-citizens-assemblies

Author Elaine Graham-LeighPosted on July 16, 2019Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The problem with citizens’ assemblies

Fully-automated luxury communism – book review

Fully-automated luxury communism – book review

Can we get there, and would we like it if we did?

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/book-reviews/20396-luxury-communism-utopianism-or-revolutionary

Author Elaine Graham-LeighPosted on July 16, 2019Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Fully-automated luxury communism – book review

Far-right terrorists and the meaning of the Battle of Tours

Far-right terrorists and the meaning of the Battle of Tours

Where that far-right ‘clash of civilisations’ narrative comes from.

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/history/20240-far-right-terrorists-and-the-meaning-of-the-battle-of-tours

Author Elaine Graham-LeighPosted on July 16, 2019Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Far-right terrorists and the meaning of the Battle of Tours

The far right, grooming gangs and racist lies

The far right, grooming gangs and racist lies

I wrote this last year, but it’s still relevant.

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/19930-the-far-right-grooming-gangs-and-racist-lies

Author Elaine Graham-LeighPosted on July 16, 2019Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The far right, grooming gangs and racist lies

Cathars in Question

Cathars in Question

Was Catharism an ‘ism’, or have inquisitors and then scholars created a organised dualist movement where no such thing really existed? My review of an entertainingly bad-tempered collection is here.

Author Elaine Graham-LeighPosted on September 25, 2017Categories HistoryLeave a comment on Cathars in Question

The Night They Sacked New Rome

The Night They Sacked New Rome

New story! The Night They Sacked New Rome is published in Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction 59, out now. It’s inspired by the 2011 riots and in particular by my young neighbours at the time. It’s about as cheering as my fiction ever is, so check it out.

Author Elaine Graham-LeighPosted on April 3, 2017November 13, 2017Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The Night They Sacked New Rome

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Short stories

  • The Limping Step
  • The Blue Man’s Burden
  • The Rule of Law
  • Why We Fight
  • Told in a Brothel on Darien
  • The Night They Sacked New Rome
  • The Wild Man
  • The Last God of East London
  • Glacial

Political Writing

  • A Diet of Austerity
  • Marxism and Women’s Liberation

Academic Writing

  • The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade

Blog

  • July 2019
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  • April 2017
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