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Writer, critic, historian, editor etc Editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social [email protected] / [email protected] https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · Jan 25

For the @newstatesman.com i wrote a profile of the historian Correlli Barnett, which charts the perils of self-loathing nationalism and the rise of Britain's new right
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

The prophet of the new right

In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.

www.newstatesman.com

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Heat is a necessary intervention, defining climate politics when it's too late.

For a taste of the book, we have just published an extract: www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Heat is a necessary intervention, defining climate politics when it's too late.

For a taste of the book, we have just published an extract: www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 1d

essential reading

Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...

The Long Heat

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

www.versobooks.com

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 2d

Good thing he has a high quality team of thoughtful people with a firm grasp of the issues and how complex governing is

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 2d

Likewise!!!! Energy historians – get on it!

John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 2d

And while you are there, please do consider buying a copy of one of our print issues, or subscribe either in print or digital for just over a pound a month, to help support the best new climate writing around
www.break-down.org/subscribe-now/

We publish two issues each year in the spring and autumn, with contributions spanning critical essays, journalism, photography and interviews on questions of capitalism, nature and the climate. For ju...

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 2d

In it, they take us from the fields of western France, as activists battle against the building of a mégabassine, to the new ideology that says: “these extreme weather events are now a fact of life, but they can be managed if powerful enough technologies are put in place"

John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 2d

"Ever since the shift to steam power, society has been bidding a long farewell to climate..."

New on the website: Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on “muscular adaptationism”, the ruling ideology of contemporary climate capitalism.

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EXTRACT: The Long Heat

An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

www.break-down.org

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 4d

good piece on the heritage of leo strauss and the claremont institute. made me think about how the concept of straussian eso/exoteric readings and hidden truths fits (in a degenerate fashion) online meme culture www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk and the Claremonsters

Meet the philosophical cabal remaking America

www.newstatesman.com

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Bill Berry @whimberry.bsky.social · 5d

What an electrifying read. I followed the inspiring ZAD movement in the 2010s but didn't know about its sequel at Sainte-Soline.

John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 6d

For the @the-breakdown.bsky.social today, we have an exclusive extract from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's superb latest book, The Long Heat!

@versobooks.bsky.social

EXTRACT: The Long Heat

An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

www.break-down.org

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, Wim!!

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 5d

Head over to www.break-down.org for a sneak peak of the first part of The Long Heat!

More importantly, please do subscribe to the magazine! The Break Down is a fantastic source of cutting-edge, critical writing about climate change and capitalism. It deserves your support.

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 6d

For the @the-breakdown.bsky.social today, we have an exclusive extract from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's superb latest book, The Long Heat!

@versobooks.bsky.social

EXTRACT: The Long Heat

An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

www.break-down.org

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 6d

Anything written on what seems to be an increasingly global series of major cyber attacks?

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d

Japan is just a few days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry as the producer of the nation’s most popular beer wrestles with a devastating cyber attack that has shut down its domestic breweries www.ft.com/content/bb86...

Japan days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry after cyber attack

Vast majority of factories of nation’s most popular beer have stopped work this week

www.ft.com

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 6d

Subscribe for FREE and be the first to read more previews of the best new climate writing 👇

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 6d

*EXCLUSIVE*

This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚

Read now👇

www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

EXTRACT: The Long Heat

An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

www.break-down.org

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 6d

It outlines the ruling climate ideology of the present, what they call "muscular adaptationism"

John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 6d

For the @the-breakdown.bsky.social today, we have an exclusive extract from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm's superb latest book, The Long Heat!

@versobooks.bsky.social

EXTRACT: The Long Heat

An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

www.break-down.org

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 7d

Bristol folk can now buy the second issue of the magazine at the brilliant Bookhaus.

Support indie bookshops and indie magazines!

bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 7d

Just received our delivery of the 2nd edition of Eco socialist magazine @the-breakdown.bsky.social ! This is our politics. Come and check it out

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 15d

www.break-down.org/then-where-w...

Read here!

And, if you can, subscribe for just over £1 a month so we can continue to publish the work of climate journalists like Garry.

Then Where Will We Live

In Indonesia, nickel mining is booming as global demand for batteries surges. Its impacts—on workers, on communities and on nature—are deeply felt.

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 15d

New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2

Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community

Photographed: Daniel Totabo

Daniel Totabo fishes for eel in the Halmahera rainforest

Nickel mines enroach on the rainforest in central Halmahera

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 7d

Friends in Bristol - you can now find our second issue at the always excellent @bookhaus.bsky.social

Support indie booksellers!

bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 7d

Just received our delivery of the 2nd edition of Eco socialist magazine @the-breakdown.bsky.social ! This is our politics. Come and check it out

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 7d

And Lighthouse in Edinburgh!

John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 7d

There are also copies available at Housmans and MagCulture in London, and soon at Upstart & Crow in Vancouver, @anotherstoryto.bsky.social in Toronto, The Magazine Club in Seoul –– and maybe your local bookshop too?

John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 7d

Bristol folk can now buy the second issue of the magazine at the brilliant Bookhaus.

Support indie bookshops and indie magazines!

bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 7d

Just received our delivery of the 2nd edition of Eco socialist magazine @the-breakdown.bsky.social ! This is our politics. Come and check it out

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