Dear Mr Stringer, I am writing to you about your position as trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. I am puzzled as to why you, as a Labour member of Parliament, have taken on such a role. I am a member of the Labour party and while I welcome breadth of debate among […]
Read More… from Natasha Walter’s Letter to Graham Stringer of the GWPF
Dear Professor Michael J Kelly, I am writing to you as a scientist. I have a PhD in experimental physics, and moved on to study the biophysical resource use of economies, as well as the links between social progress and resource use. I have led a very successful project entitled “Living Well Within […]
Read More… from Julia Steinberger’s letter to Michael J Kelly of the GWPF
Dear Terence Mordaunt, all your working life, you’ve been a man of the sea. As co-founder of the Bristol Port Company, it’s the key element of your immensely successful business. But even before that, you were – as I understand it – a navigating apprentice in the Merchant Navy. I’m sure you must have […]
Read More… from Toby Litt’s Letter to Terence Mordaunt of the GWPFToby Litt
12th September, 2022 Dear Kathy Gyngell, I’m a well-known novelist and co-founder of Writers Rebel and I’m writing to you because Steve Baker announced last week that he’d been given a role in Liz Truss’s new government as junior minister in the Northern Ireland office. A day later, he stepped down from his role as […]
Read More… from Monique Roffey’s Letter to Kathy Gyngell of the GWPF
Sunday 2nd October Dear Jerome Booth, Forgive me contacting you out of the blue – but I was just reading about your association with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in today’s Observer! That came as something of a surprise, I have to say, given the acumen you have brought to bear on […]
Read More… from Sir Jonathon Porritt’s Letter to Jerome Booth of the GWPF
Just up the road from where I live in West London there’s a tree with a wild colony of honeybees living inside a cavity in its trunk. You can see them in action here. Above the gravestones of Kensal Green cemetery, which include those of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Freddie Mercury, a Queen bee […]
This week, intersectional environmentalist and writer Leah Thomas shares an excerpt from her forthcoming book, The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet, published by Profile Books. I had a rude awakening during the summer of 2014. While on break from college in my hometown of Florissant, Missouri, […]
Ned Beauman is a journalist, screenwriter, and the author of five novels. In 2013 he was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta magazine. Here he discusses some of the themes of his new novel, Venomous Lumpsucker, with Writers Rebel’s Liz Jensen. Liz Jensen: Venomous Lumpsucker is a fierce, funny, angry book that […]
Political thinker and philosopher Roman Krznaric is interviewed by Writers Rebel’s Liz Jensen. Roman shares an excerpt from his latest book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World, here. Liz Jensen: The title of your book is taken from a quotation by the medical researcher Jonas Salk, […]
This week we share an extract from Roman Krznaric’s new book The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World. Read his interview with Writer’s Rebel’s Liz Jensen here. While the time rebellion in politics and economics has only developed since the 1970s, novelists and film makers have been extending our […]
Read More… from Science Fiction and the Power of StorytellingRoman Krznaric
A short while ago I cared for a patient who was admitted to the hospital with breathlessness. He’d developed heart failure, a condition with a cruel name which describes a state where the heart muscle ceases to pump efficiently enough to deliver blood and oxygen to the cells that need them, often leading to […]
Read More… from Why the Climate Crisis is a Health CrisisKatie Percival
First, have the dream. Then make it happen. In conversation with Liz Jensen, Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transitions Movement and author of What If to What Next: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want discusses the power of the imagination and how stories can frame the future we want, […]
In Almost Invisible Angels, Jay Griffiths & Sir Mark Rylance speak out in praise of insects. Original score composed & performed by Sam Lee & Anna Phoebe. “They do not take the title of angels, being by nature bashful and unassuming, they go by other names – firefly, bee, ant, caddisfly – I wish that everyone who […]
Read More… from Almost Invisible AngelsJay Griffiths & Mark Rylance