Will the environmental protest movement turn violent?
Climate chaos is unfolding all around us and leaders won’t act to prevent it. Yet the environmental protest movement remains mostly peaceful. A personal take on whether this is changing.
Civil disobedience in the shadow of a radical ancestor
2020 started with death and trauma. Then there was a pandemic. So, clearly civil disobedience was an entirely reasonable reaction. Yet my rebellion never strayed far from the path of a radical ancestor.
The ambiguity of roots
What is happening below ground? A Lynchian struggle, beautiful acts of collective solidarity or are the roots coming for us?
Cycling for freedom during coronavirus
During a time of shrunken horizons, cycling is escape and freedom exploring a city of strange wonder.
How does the Labour leader become Prime Minister? A satirical guide.
As the first criticism of the new labour leader, Keir Starmer, rumbles, what does it take to be Labour leader and win an election?
Plague and coronavirus: Bring out your dead, then it’s revolution time
The third and final instalment exploring today’s coronavirus crisis and comparing it with the historical documentary fiction of Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.
The hangman’s mementos
A mysterious pair of boots and one of England’s most prolific hangman create an intriguing Glasgow mystery.
London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: city lockdown and streets of suffering
We explore more similarities and differences between the coronavirus of 2020 and the plague of 17th century London. City lockdown, silence and noise in the streets, wild rumours and pandemic inequality.
London plague 1665 vs coronavirus 2020: early days and lockdown
Contagion, fear, fake news and quackery. There are striking similarities between today’s crisis and the Great Plague of London centuries ago. Has anything changed?
Eulogy to my mother
We had a complicated relationship but she was also a unique and fascinating character.
The day the Blue Rebels rose-up
The day the Blue Rebels rose-up and led a climate protest for the rising seas.
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