In Defence of Ruins
A photograph of the shell of a ruined building in the Palladian style--its pillars and windows overgrown with ivy. I took the photograph above a couple of years ago, while visiting a favourite haunt of...
View ArticleTaking Equality Out of Environmentalism – A Response to Paul Kingsnorth
Up in the Carneddi above our old house, looking down towards the sea. For a while now, I’ve been noticing a worrying trend in certain environmental activist circles here in the UK. Namely, the attempts...
View ArticleTo Call Each Thing by its Right Name
“The path trodden by wayfarers and pilgrims followed the railway and then turned into the fields. Here Lara stopped, closed her eyes and took a good breath of the air which carried all the smells of...
View ArticleWhy Food Prices Are Going Up, and What You Can Do About It
This morning, I was watching breakfast news (it gives me something to shout at to start my day) and happened to catch a report on the rising cost of food bills. According to most of these reports (and...
View ArticleThe Girl at the End of the World
The Girl at the End of the World – Fox Spirit Books Really delighted to be able to announce that my story The Weed Wife is now available in Fox Spirit‘s ‘Girl at the End of the World‘–an anthology of...
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