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.
This isn’t England
This isn’t England. It’s a sub-Saharan dream. A cult film with characters drifting through a cinematic landscape of emptiness, rust, clutter and sea kale.
City secrets: outsider art and lost rooms
A city of lost rooms: where Jewish scholars vanish, artist seers battle their obsessions and twisted worlds thrive.
The ambiguity of roots
What is happening below ground? A Lynchian struggle, beautiful acts of collective solidarity or are the roots coming for us?
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?
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.
Partick Thistle: weird mascots, humour and Pele
Forget the Old Firm. Glasgow’s Partick Thistle has given world football a wonderfully bizarre mascot and one of the funniest football quips ever. Welcome to the world of the Jags.
Sunrise to sunset: walking Kolkata
Kolkata has been called a city of furious energy, the city of joy, a dying city. It is teeming, intense, broken and modern, old British empire and a stronghold of Bengali pride and culture. It’s crumbling and developing, wealthy and poor. It’s digested a tragic history but has a unique soul where it’s almost obligatory…
Hello my friends, this murder of crows
Daily winter encounters with the local murder of crows, and exploring crow folklore.
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