Heroes to Zeroes

From Enoch to Johnny and back again – True and Fake British heroes. Boys’ Own Stories were popular back in the times before the Black Mirror devices that we hold in our sweaty palms, sometimes for our own educational purposes but, mostly, as tracking and data-gathering tools of the Dark Overlords who are attempting to corral...

Gone Rogue

Rogue Male, published in 1939, is a novel by Geoffrey Household in which the protagonist, a member of what he calls ‘Class X’, heads out to Poland with the aim of hunting a tyrant whose existence is a threat to millions. Although the novel never mentions his name, it is apparent (and Household admitted...