For some time, I’ve been collecting novels which focus on the far right.| D K Renton
A post which I know will only appeal to a small readership - both lefties and Liverpool fans.| D K Renton
At the start of August, I was one of the organisers of the demo outside the Thistle Barbican hotel.| D K Renton
Usually, when I write, I have a destination in mind when I begin – a critique of another socialist perhaps, or a proposal for how we should organise the left differently.| D K Renton
Regular readers may have picked up by now that I’m publishing a novel this summer; this is big news for me.| D K Renton
Between 2018 and 2023, the Undercover Policing Inquiry published information about the police unit known as the Special Operation Squad / the Special Demonstration Squad [SDS] in the years covering 1968 to 1982 (“tranche 1”).| D K Renton
Audrey White - 40 years of campaigning for justice| D K Renton
After starting this Substack with a group of pieces on left-wing failures, I’m trying to use similar concepts to think about the political centre and right.| D K Renton
After opening this Substack with a group of pieces on left-wing failures, this is intended to begin a second group of pieces, looking at incidents of centrist or right-wing perfidy.| D K Renton
Not politics today, or not politics alone but thoughts on fandom, longing, and mourning someone I never knew.| D K Renton
By one who knew her| D K Renton
In the last piece in this series, I am writing about someone enjoyed the adventure, played fast with the rules, was careless about where his behaviour left his comrades.| D K Renton
Friends may feel that I’m focussing too narrowly on the small grievances of the left; but I do think the following incident is revealing – as a model of how not to do politics.| D K Renton
(...they do not mean to but they do...)| davidrenton590934.substack.com
Writer, historian, barrister. Bylines at LRB, Guardian, rs21. Next book, 'The Story of Jenny Greenteeth' (July 26). Click to read D K Renton, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.| davidrenton590934.substack.com
(on the far right and free speech, again...)| davidrenton590934.substack.com
