Opposite the window where I type is a tree I have no name for. In summer, its fuchsia pink tendrils droop over the pavement like a flamboyant feather duster. I think of it often: the arbour beneath those arching branches, the gap in my mind where a name should be. In 2015, Sheffield’s street […]
Mum spent a lot of time at Grandad’s house that summer; she always sighed before she went. Sometimes, she’d be half-out of the door, car keys in hand, and I’d make a coffee and she’d sit down again. As if she’d never intended to go. It’s difficult, she’d say. The summer light would glow […]
Read More… from Some Things Are Not Nothing – Short StoryLyndsay Wheble
Wherever there is the potential for planting, I will garden. Whether it’s in a pot or on a balcony, or in my own dear garden which I’ve been raking and sowing since March. I write about the garden in a weekly mailing list, Pond Tales, chronicling the antics of the frogs and birds. However, […]
Read More… from Lost landscapes and the grief of nature’s tessellationsJasmin Kirkbride
The globally-resonant word ‘cantadora’ is a play on the Spanish/Italian/Portuguese word ‘cantador,’ meaning singer. Part of an ancient oral tradition, it refers to storytelling that arises from personal and collective history. In the many landscapes that have shaped me as a human, and as an artist, I have found and experienced cantadora again and […]
Read More… from Cantadora and the Path of HopeWhitney McVeigh
Your first collection of short stories, Dark Neighbourhood (Fitzcarraldo, 2021), is very much about the contemporary moment. Issues of displacement and accelerating change run throughout it. It’s a brilliantly unsettling book. What effect were you hoping the stories would have on their readers? I hope that the readers will be able to rest in the ambiguity […]
May I start with one point of law. I wish to dispute the claim by the Prosecution that our action does not meet the criterion of addressing an ‘imminent’ threat to life. It is well-established in English law that ‘imminence’ does not only mean ‘that very night’ or the like. The classic example is […]
Whenever I hear an interviewer or journalist say; ‘We know all about the climate crisis but why are you disrupting the ordinary people of Britain?’ I know that they have seen some headlines and they have probably read a few articles, but they don’t know about the crisis. Not really. If they had […]
Read More… from Jessica Townsend’s Court StatementJessica Townsend
When the paramedics came for me in the sweltering days of May 2020 it didn’t feel real. I had just passed out in the heat and collapsed headfirst into a radiator. I’d seen paramedics attend to friends and relatives, but in my feverish state, it didn’t sink in that they would come for me. […]
Read More… from Four Lessons for the Long HaulRobin Boardman
BIG OIL IS THE POISON. ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE Delay is deadly That’s the message of our poster, created by award-wining novelist and Writers Rebel co-founder Monique Roffey, the visual artist Zak Ove, and the graphic designer Ebon Heath. Big Oil refers to BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total, the world’s […]
What do we mean by ‘Big Oil’ anyway? It’s the umbrella term for BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total, the world’s six largest and richest publicly-traded oil and natural gas producers. Then there’s OPEC. An intergovernmental organisation set up in 1960 by five of the world’s largest oil producing countries, it co-ordinates the […]
Polly Stenham writes for theatre and screen. She shot to fame with the play That Face, which she wrote when she was 19. […]
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Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic and the author of the iconic Fat is the Feminist Issue. […]
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Joe Dunthorne is a prize-winning Welsh novelist, poet and journalist. […]
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Rachel Edwards is a popular TV and print social commentator and the author of the celebrated novels Darling and Lucky. […]
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Caroline Lucas is the former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion since 2010. She was re-elected in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections, increasing her majority each time. […]
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Irvine Welsh is the acclaimed Scottish author of the ground-breaking Trainspotting and a host of other novels, as well as plays and short stories. […]
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Max Porter is the award-winning author of the celebrated novels Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny. […]
Ruth Padel is a conservationist, prize-winning poet, novelist, short-story writer, academic and broadcaster. […]
Anouchka Grose gives her support to the Tufton Three in this short moving film. A writer and clinical psychoanalyst, she herself spoke at the Tufton event in September 2020. […]
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