John Phipps
@John__Phipps
Contributing Writer @1843magazine. "What I have written I have written."
When I started looking into Carlo Acutis, the ‘millenial saint’ taking the Catholic world by storm, I was expecting to do a whimsical piece about what it meant to be a saint in the digital era. What I found was something rather different: economist.com/1843/2025/03/2…
This piece by @John__Phipps on Wasfi Kani -- one of the most formidable and compelling people I have ever met -- is a triumph. It creeps past the journalistic into the literary. ft.com/content/d92ea5…
Don’t come on here much because these days it’s like sitting in a bar where they play Fox News all day, but I just did a big FT feature about the United Kingdom’s greatest (and most idiosyncratic) arts impresario, Wasfi Kani ft.com/content/d92ea5…
This is brilliant
My profile of Wasfi Kani, the inimitable queen of country house opera, is the cover of this week’s FT Magazine. Run, don't walk!
My profile of Wasfi Kani, the inimitable queen of country house opera, is the cover of this week’s FT Magazine. Run, don't walk!
Hello, I've been quietly working on this and now I'm made up to share that I've signed a contract with @Palgrave to publish my first book: UNPOSSIBLE HISTORY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. As a working-class wool from Merseyside, this is a big deal for me & I'm dead chuffed – cheers!
The LRB sent Rosa to Crufts and she wrote an incredible piece lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…
The mother of Carlo Acutis has responded to my article in the Economist this spring. "If you don't know God, you are in the darkness," she tells the Spectator. "We pray for these people." You can read the original article here: economist.com/1843/2025/03/2…
In its most basic sense, a saint is someone who has gone to heaven because of their virtuous life. @John__Phipps digs into the story of Carlo Acutis to see how the Italian teenager earned his halo econ.st/4iGZTpa
A portrait of the life and mind of Tyler Cowen, a 61-year-old economist at George Mason University in Virginia who is a bestselling author, podcaster and the toast of Silicon Valley. @DVNJr's top pick by @John__Phipps (email required) economist.com/1843/2025/02/2…
I profiled the one and only Tyler Cowen for 1843: economist.com/1843/2025/02/2…
No one: Absolutely no one: Not one living soul: The bad boy clarinettist making classical music cool:
A state that withholds citizenship from people born there is not a democracy
Now ban Twitter so I can’t waste my fucking life on here anymore!