This article, for The Ecologist website, is a response to the government’s recent designation of 27 Marine Conservation Zones
Category Archives: published articles
Saying No
Here is an article on the NI blog about the current hysteria in the UK around migration from Romania and Bulgaria
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
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.
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
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.
And Now for the Tyrants in Our Heads
This article about the Egyptian writer Nasr Abu Zayd and how he might have interpreted the Arab Uprisings will also appear in the winter issue of the Quarterly Review
Cometh the Moment, Cometh the Movie
The New Internationalist blog posted this article about Paul Goodman Changed My Life and the camp outside St Paul’s. There are details of the UK screenings (November 20th – November 23rd) at the end.
Writing the Riots
This essay is about the rioting in British cities last August. It re-visits Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd in an attempt to better understand the recent outbreaks. Published in Dissent.