Exactly six years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, we read Olivia Laing's essay collection The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. If you weren't with us then, or want to refresh your memory about Laing's work, here is a link to the various posts on that subject on this blog.
I bring this up because Laing has just published a powerful op-ed in The Guardian that builds on the thesis of The Lonely City to argue that "Far-right groups prey on loneliness, using the feelings of being left behind, isolated, disregarded and ignored as a recruitment tool, and offering potent narratives that stoke grievances and displace vulnerability on to other bodies that can be hated and attacked." It's well worth your time.
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