Luther BlissettEngland at the 2006 World CupEngland’s ‘Golden Generation’ dominated so much of my early(ish) football following years that it’s weirdly hard to pin down exactly what…19 min read·Mar 1, 2021----
Luther BlissettThe Last of the Griffins; or, how my grandfather had tried to assassinate HitlerI never met my Grandfather, at least not in the sense of an engagement between two equally conscious people. He died of a heart attack…28 min read·Jan 29, 2021----
Luther BlissettArsène Wenger, George Graham and ‘British’ FootballThis essay was prompted by this thread by the Twitter user Post-Liberal Pete (a name that I can only assume is an homage to their…18 min read·Dec 9, 2020----
Luther BlissettGrossed out in Macau: Lawrence Osborne’s ‘The Ballad of a Small Player’The novel where everyone involved is a revolting human being is one with a long pedigree but, perhaps because of that, is one that is…5 min read·Dec 2, 2020----
Luther BlissettThe Original Meaning in HistoryA.N. Whitehouse once famously described the whole of Western philosophy as “a series of footnotes to Plato,” a phrase that has since…8 min read·Nov 25, 2020----
Luther BlissettShows about Shows: References in ‘La La Land’ and ‘The Sopranos’With the exception of the Western, the musical and the mob movie are probably the two oldest and most established genres in American…5 min read·Nov 18, 2020----
Luther BlissettHow the UK Invented the Nation State but is Bad at Being One; or, a review of David Edgerton’s…In much writing about the history of the United Kingdom’s past century and a half, the question of decline, either as a theme or object of…7 min read·Nov 11, 2020----
Luther BlissettBrexit, Scottish Nationalism and the Virtues and Delusions of Smallness5 min read·Nov 5, 2020----
Luther BlissettJonathan Hickman wants to Destroy the WorldHow one writer shook up the Marvel continuity with his standout Avengers run7 min read·Oct 28, 2020----
