Journal
Essays, notes, reflections, and announcements from Darkness Warmth Press.
The Darkness Warmth Press Journal gathers longer reflections from the press: essays on storytelling, ethics, folklore, animal welfare, creative independence, and the ideas that sit behind the books.
Featured Essay
Stewardship After Eden
Intelligence, Responsibility, and the Ethics of Care
A founding reflection on responsibility, sentience, animal welfare, and the ethics of care. This essay explores the belief that awareness should lead not to dominion, but to restraint, protection, and a deeper obligation toward the lives made vulnerable by human power.
By Phen Weston · Essay
More From the Journal
Does Anyone Know Where We Put the Kettle?
The Future of Darkness Warmth Press
Darkness Warmth Press is still in its early, slightly chaotic, deeply hopeful stage. In this journal entry, we look at where the press currently stands, what has already been built, and what comes next: books, stories, readers, and eventually crowdfunding to help carry the work further. It is a small beginning, but a real one — binbags, boxes, strange stories and all.
The Right-Wing Comment Section and the Gaslighting of Reality
How reactionary comment sections turn insult into argument, grievance into identity, and evidence into enemy action
By Phen Weston · Essay
The Right-Wing Comment Section and the Gaslighting of Reality examines how reactionary social media replies turn insult into argument, grievance into identity, and evidence into enemy action. Focusing on the comment section itself — the pile-ons, projection, source denial, “just asking questions” routines, and victimhood theatre — the essay argues that these spaces are not harmless noise, but public rehearsals for scapegoating and truth-denial.
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Tommy Robinson: The “People’s” Poison
How Grievance Merchants Sell the Far Right Back to the People It Harms
By Phen Weston · Essay
A political essay on Tommy Robinson, far-right grievance, and the manufacture of martyrdom. It examines how Stephen Yaxley-Lennon converts legal consequence, racialised suspicion, and social abandonment into a marketable politics of persecution. Moving through his public record, the Jamal Hijazi case, the legacy of the EDL, and the wider grievance economy around modern far-right politics, the essay argues that Robinson does not heal Britain’s wounds; he exploits them, redirecting real anger away from power and toward the vulnerable.
Dear God: Why Are You Such a Cunt?
A Profane Essay on Evil, Stewardship, and the Failure of Divine Care
By Phen Weston · Essay
A profane philosophical reflection on suffering, divine power, and the obligations of creation. Beginning with Good Omens and moving through theology, theodicy, and care ethics, this essay asks whether an all-knowing, all-powerful creator can permit the architecture of suffering, demand worship, and still be called good.
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