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Published in The Guardian, 10th February 2009
Last week, the government published a shortlist of five potential schemes for harnessing the tidal power of the river Severn, in the interests of providing renewable electricity. It is no secret which of them is favoured in Whitehall . As ever, it is the biggest one: a ten-mile long mega-barrage which would cost £14bn and could generate 5% of Britain ’s power.
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Published in The Land, November 2010
Last autumn, I moved from the city to the country. After fifteen years in Oxford, and with a young daughter now in tow, my wife and I shifted ourselves to a rented former barn on a hill farm in south Cumbria. It had been long in the planning, and it’s intended to be the first stage in a process which will lead us to…
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Over the years I’ve written essays, features, news reports, opinion pieces, interviews and other things that can’t be easily classified.
I’ve interviewed names such as Noam Chomksy, David Attenborough and Arundhati Roy, reported from several continents and given talks to conferences and festivals. In the process I’ve written for most of the Fleet Street broadsheets, the occasional tabloid and most of the big political…
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Published in the Guardian, 22 April 2011
Here is a question for St George’s Day: how should England respond to the government’s austerity agenda? If it sounds like an odd question, it is only because we never ask it. Austerity will affect the whole of the UK, but most of its blows are landing on England.
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Published in Dark Mountain 1, May 2010
Today’s environmentalism is as much a victim of the contemporary cult of utility as every other aspect of our lives, from science to education. We are not environmentalists now because we have an emotional reaction to the wild world. In this country, most of us wouldn’t even know where to find it. We are environmentalists now in order to promote something called ‘sustainability’. What…
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Published in Comment is Free, April 2010
English governance is a canker at the heart of our crumbling constitution. England is the place where 80% of the electorate lives and votes, yet nobody ever talks about it. In all the talk of constitutional reform ’ a suddenly popular subject ’ we have heard nothing from our politicians about the English Question: why is England the only UK nation whose people have…
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Published on Comment is Free, November 2009
I wonder how many more people will have to be rescued from their cottages with military helicopters, and how many more A-roads will have to collapse into the torrents beneath, and how many more National Trust tea rooms will have to be submerged under eight feet of water before we can grasp that the future is not behaving in the way it was supposed…
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Published in the programme for the play 'Jerusalem', January 2010
The English, notoriously, have a blind spot when it comes to their myths, the legends of their past and their people, their folk tales and their origins. This is not something that could be said of any of the other peoples of the British Isles. The Scots and the Irish share Cúchulainn and the legends of Finn, and celebrate any number of ancient and…
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Published on Granta.com, November 2008
Obama’s archetypal status is not just about his race. It is also about his youth, his oratorical power, his good looks, the generation he represents. Just look at him: watch him move, listen to him speak. It’s hard not to be impressed. It’s also hard to remember precisely what he’s saying
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Published in The Idler, June 2010
You are a nimby, a reactionary and a Romantic idiot. You want to go back to a Golden Age, in which you can play at living in prettified village poverty because you have never experienced the real thing. You are a privileged, bourgeois escapist. You dream of a prelapsarian rural idyll because you can’t cope with the modern multicultural, urban reality. You are a…
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Published in the Daily Telegraph, 16 April 2009
Ed, Will and Ginger are three men in their mid-twenties who have embarked on a journey both remarkable and ordinary. They are walking the length and breadth of Britain , singing as they go. As they walk they are picking up more songs ’ the traditional songs of this island ’ from people they meet, and passing them on to others.
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A talk given in Bogota, Colombia, in 1999
The text of a talk on campaigning journalism which I was invited to give to the annual conference of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists in Bogota, Colombia, in 1999
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Commissioned for the anthology 'Caught by the River', published by Cassell in 2009
If the lower Thames ’ the docks, the capital, the estuary, the tide ’ is the world, the upper Thames is home. If the London wharves and the Cutty Sark represent the England of bombast and conquest ’ Empire and redcoats and capitalism and the White Man’s Burden ’ then Northmoor Lock and Tadpole Bridge represent an England that is older than that, and…
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Published in the Guardian, 26 September 2011
The crisis currently playing out on the world stage is a crisis of growth. Not, as we are regularly told, a crisis caused by too little growth, but by too much of it
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Published in the Independent, 17 July 2009
What do farmyard pigs eat? Easy answer, you might think: they eat swill. They clean up after us, chomping on trough after trough of our potato peelings, carrot tops, sour milk and stale bread. In return, we turn them into bacon. Ungrateful, perhaps, but a system of mutual reliance which has worked across Europe for millennia.
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Published in the Daily Telegraph, 18 April 2008
It’s a summer evening on Reculver Beach in Kent and I’m sitting cross-legged beneath the cliffs, piling driftwood onto a stuttering fire. The evening silence is broken only by the crackling of the burning wood, by hundreds of darting, chattering sand martins shooting in and out of slits in the sandy cliff faces and, now, the shifting of the gravel beneath Fergus’s feet as…
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