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The new chapels. Built by @aled_mj, @jshez, and @stephanierewing.

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Something for this week's @NewStatesman on M. John Harrison's fifty-year war on certainty.

All the great catastrophists included: Wyndham, Ballard, and Mick McCarthy.

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

A few words on Nigel Cabourn, and his certain idea of Britain.

https://t.co/jdgYhz10tD

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Having not picked up a controller for well over a decade, I'm not exactly what you would call a gamer. The @NewStatesman, however, do love a challenge.

For the magazine this week: James Bond versus the machines, and why Britain needs him to win.

https://t.co/XwQeT47uvf

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Thought I'd distract myself from monitoring the situation by writing about it instead. Some thoughts on living through history, with the help of my friends Elizabeth Bowen, Bold Ibis, and the tennis ball I've been bouncing all around Maida Vale.

https://t.co/aQjnXZo1eh

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

War. Claude Code. The AI apocalypse. In a time where crises of faith are no longer confined to nuns, I wrote something this week on why it’s time to crack out the Rumer Godden.

https://t.co/xcq76rfEAJ

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

John Wyndham walked through twenty thousand dead at Falaise and came home to write about a handyman on Mars. Alex Garland has made two films that understand why. Me in today’s @NewStatesman on 28 Years Later, and the return of the English strange.

https://t.co/FxdOEhbUUz

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Thrilled to have written this for today's Ruffian, in praise of the bad, the bawdy, and the return of the body. Ft. After Dark, Aphra Behn, and the Inbetweeners Movie.

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Wrote something about 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, humanist horror, and the moon.

[Ashore @Ashoreio]

RT @aled_mj: Enjoyed writing this for the @NewStatesman on the poetics of Home Alone. Featuring Fanny Price, J.G. Ballard, and Abraham Linc…

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Great conversation. Really excited by this project. And 1956 Calder Hall looks as good as ever. Thanks as well @andrewjb_ for the very kind mention at the end.

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Full essay - with equal thanks to Chris McQuarrie and Maurice Merleau-Ponty - here:

https://t.co/y8ZE2zuBKB

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

I wrote for @the_met_review on the phenomenology of Tom Cruise, and why in Mission: Impossible films, the villains have to Google things and the heroes do not.

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

In the early 1980s, the watchmakers of Switzerland faced an existential problem: a new technology that produced watches cheaper, more accurate, and functionally superior in every way to anything they made at the time.

I wrote something for @worksinprogmag about the fightback - and what it says about human craftsmanship in a world that sometimes feels it might no longer need it.

https://t.co/AbGry7oGVQ

[Andrew Bennett @andrewjb_]

I love @aled_mj's writing, and this is such a beautiful -- and timely -- piece about Britain's nuclear aesthetic

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

On a good day for UK nuclear, wrote something about how the National Trust engineered Britain's nuclear aesthetic for the better - and how we might do it on an even bigger scale

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

What's better: to be incompetently competent, or competently incompetent? My latest, on Mick Herron's Clown Town, cosy catastrophes, and our national art of getting away with it.

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

What does it mean to think in flesh? My latest here, on @jordan_castro2's Muscle Man, the bowling green at Shandy Hall, and the mind–muscle connection.

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Excited to have a piece in the new print edition of @WorksInProgMag, out this November. If tales of men living out of camper vans in 1984 Basel sound like your thing, you’re in for a treat.

[Aled Maclean-Jones @aled_mj]

Wrote something about @TomMcTague's Between the Waves, and politics for sickos.

[Joe Hill @jo3hill]

Nuclear power is wrapped up in the matter of Britain.

‘Roots that reach as far as the water / And help keep it dark. At night that lake / Burns like a torch. No one knows its bottom / No wisdom reaches such depths.’

Great Sunday morning reading from Aled.