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. […]
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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. […]
Read More… from Anouchka Grose supports the Tufton 3Anouchka Grose
The beginning of each book is often so distant from its end. I began my first book thinking I was writing a history of the river Indus. But when I eventually arrived in Pakistan, the Indus river’s ecological present burst onto its pages. Water, the lack of it—and the impossibility of sharing it equitably—was […]
It’s February and my husband and I move into our new house in Norwich, where we moved eighteen months ago from London seeking slower, wider skies. Before the paint’s dry or the boxes unpacked we’re out in the garden. We’ve longed for a patch of green to call our own for years. Neighbours tell […]
Writers Rebel have just now received this wonderful video from Jonathon Porritt, expressing his support for the Tufton 3 whose case will be heard on the 28th October. […]
Read More… from Jonathon Porritt Supports the Tufton 3Jonathon Porritt
“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” -The Once-ler Rarely do words from children’s books sear themselves into my memory like this warning by the faceless Once-ler in Dr. Seuss’s classic The Lorax. The once-destructive (now regretful) protagonist issues this warning to the […]
I had to stop watching the mainstream news. I turned off my notifications, stopped doom-scrolling. I closed my eyes, put my fingers in my ears. My heart couldn’t take any more, it was breaking with shame and anger, guilt and despair at what my fellow humans are doing to each other, to our planet. […]