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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.
Published in the Independent in June 2006
A review of the splendid and heart-warming encyclopaedia by Sue Clifford and Angela King
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…
Published in the Ecologist in January 2007
A conversation with Sue Clifford and Angela King of Common Ground; the most influential environmental campaign group you’ve never heard of
Published in The Independent in March 2006
A review of Craig Taylor’s book, revisiting Ronald Blythe’s classic work
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.
Published in the Independent, March 2007
A review of the book by Julian Baggini. In which a media philosopher ventures beyond Cosmopolis and brings back some useful insights.
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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