Our Sea Needs Our Say

I’m hosting a discussion about marine conservation and Lyme Bay with Philip Hoare, George Monbiot and Callum Roberts 8 PM on 17th September, at The Electric Palace in Bridport. £7 entrance. See below for details. Sixty square miles of Lyme Bay became the first Marine Protected Area of significant size in English waters in 2008. […]


Full Immersion in a Darkening Time

My review of The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare is in the August / September issue of the London Magazine


Europe: The View from a Homeless Shelter

The June-July issue of the London Magazine has an essay of mine about Europe.


Bringing the Rainforest Home

Here is my review of George Monbiot’s Feral for the New Internationalist


What the Surveillance Culture will Never See

An article ‘re-visiting’ the community in Tarnac, and the writings of Guy Debord, in the light of recent revelations about Mark Kennedy’s involvement in the case. For the New Internationalist blog.


Moby Dick, Chapter 118

You can hear the chapter I read for the Moby Dick Big Read here Eva Stalker has been blogging about the readings here


Local Government’s New Secret Weapon: The Deaf-Aid

This article, about the recent Independence Day Frome event, was posted on the New Internationalist website


Moby Dick for the Digital Age

I recently interviewed Philip Hoare and Angela Cockayne for Three Monkeys Online about the Moby Dick Big Read.


Various 2012

Not sure if it’s available on line but I wrote a short piece for the New Internationalist about Patrick Keiller’s ‘Robinson Institute’, a free exhibition at the Tate Britain, based on his three Robinson films. Here’s what The Guardian thought. If you couldn’t get to London for that try to see the films anyway. I […]


Giles Fraser: Going for Brokenness

An interview for the Dissent website with the former canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, who resigned over the threat of violence against the Occupy protesters last autumn.