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Wrapping up the year
And so we come to the end of another year’s blogging.
Dec 21
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Wild communities, tamed publics
I wrote a long review article that’s just been published in The Land magazine, engaging critically with various books bearing on farming and wildlife in…
Dec 12
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Small farming, urbanisation and climate migration: beyond the stereotypes in Bangladesh
Problem: how to keep this blog ticking over while I write my book.
Dec 1
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November 2024
Newsflash No.3: Lights in a Dark Age
1. Lights in a Dark Age
Nov 17
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Tractor man speaks
Apologies that I’ve been so silent on here of late.
Nov 1
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October 2024
Guest post - Care Home Farm
I’m publishing below a guest post by Alice Holloway.
Oct 7
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September 2024
Taking stock
The news cycle just keeps spinning in the murky, corporate-fuelled spaces of the alt-meat and political influencing industries, so although I signalled…
Sep 22
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Urban futures, rural futures
There’s one last bit of business outstanding from my previous project critiquing ecomodernism.
Sep 15
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August 2024
Off-grid: further thoughts on the failing renewables transition
I’ve made a case in my writings that, to oversimplify, the future is likely to devolve into low energy-input local societies based around widespread…
Aug 12
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Newsflash No.1
I thought I’d introduce a new element to the blog starting today with this first ‘news’ post.
Aug 1
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July 2024
Food ecomodernism and the emptying of politics, Part II: or, jesters and mystics
This essay continues my anniversary overview of my book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future and the various strands of criticism it’s received that I began…
Jul 15
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Food ecomodernism and the emptying of politics, Part I
There’ve been two seismic events in British public life in the last couple of weeks.
Jul 8
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