Category Archives: published articles

A review of ‘Economics After Capitalism’, by Derek Wall, Pluto Press, 2015

Derek Wall is the International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales. His book is a survey of the many alternatives to neo-liberalism. Wall is as knowledgeable about suggestions from reformist financiers like Stiglitz as he is about those of anarchists like Kropotkin or eco-feminists like Vandana Shiva or Elinor Ostrom. Bio-Regionalism has […]

Making Marine Protection Work

The Ecologist Magazine has posted an article here about the debate in Lyme Bay and beyond over how best to monitor the recovery of Marine Protected Areas.

Calling the Count to Account

I’ve a piece in the winter issue of Stir looking at UKIP’s rhetoric on immigration and its unconscious debt to Bram Stoker. Three Monkeys Online posted it here On a related theme, you can read here a translated extract from Ioana Baetica Morpurgo’s novel ‘Immigrants’, about five Romanians living in the UK.

More Than One View of Somewhere in Central Ukraine

PN Review has an essay about Berdychiv, central Ukraine, in its current issue. Joseph Conrad, Vasily Grossman and Pinhas Kahanovitch (‘Der Nister’) were all born there. I visited earlier this year, whilst writing a news piece about the present conflict. You can read it here

The Trouble with Simplifying the Sea

The Ecologist posted this, about a new Plymouth University report into what overfishing has done to the Channel.

Orange Rosette, Anyone?

Here’s a piece I did about Ukraine which was posted on the New Internationalist website

Signor Butler and the Search for Desmond

The PN Review has a chapter from a novel I’ve written in their May-June edition. You can read it on their website here

Rotten Ambiguities at the Verne, Portland

The New Internationalist posted this article about the migrant detention centre which will open at the Verne on Portland this year. Three Monkeys Online posted a fuller version of the article with the title ‘From Aristotle to the Immigrant Detention Centres’, which you can read here

A Question of Real Protection

Resurgence posted a shorter and slightly updated version of the piece about Marine Conservation Zones which I did for The Ecologist in December. You can read it here.

One for the Dug-Out

I reviewed The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen for the February / March issue of the London Magazine