55 Tufton Street Archives

Zadie Smith’s Speech on The Tufton PragmatistsZadie Smith

10th May 2023 by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith spoke as part of XR’s The Big One on April 21st 2023 outside 55 Tufton Street. Video c/o Real Media. […]

10 Things We Must RememberTom Bullough

27th April 2023 by Tom Bullough

For 2100, 77 years from now, the likely range in global temperature increase above the pre-industrial average is 2-4.9°C, with the median 3.2°C. Globally, that is to say, we are set on a course for a barely imaginable catastrophe. As Sir David Attenborough put it, four years ago this month, “It may sound frightening, […]

Tufton Street: A PoemJacqueline Saphra

20th April 2023 by Jacqueline Saphra

We gather here in love and rage to tell the story of our age, to ring the bell, to write the page, to raise the roof, rattle the cage, expose the lies, call out the cheats who foster, posture, pant and pitch deadly denial, rank and rich, and peddle death at Tufton Street and […]

Charlie Gardner’s letter to Fritz Vahrenholt of the GWPF

18th October 2022 by Charlie Gardner

Dear Professor Vahrenholt, I write to you as a conservation scientist, having spent my career working to stop the decline of nature across the world. I have read some of your work, and like you I am concerned about the potential impacts of rapid decarbonisation on the natural world, particularly if renewable energy infrastructure […]

Natasha Walter’s Letter to Graham Stringer of the GWPF

12th October 2022 by Natasha Walter

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 […]

Julia Steinberger’s letter to Michael J Kelly of the GWPF

11th October 2022 by Julia Steinberger

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 […]

Sir Jonathon Porritt’s Letter to Jerome Booth of the GWPF

6th October 2022 by Jonathon Porritt

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 […]

Rupert Read’s Court StatementRupert Read

5th November 2021 by Rupert Read

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 […]

Polly Stenham supports the Tufton 3Polly Stenham

24th October 2021 by Polly Stenham

Polly Stenham writes for theatre and screen. She shot to fame with the play That Face, which she wrote when she was 19. […]

Susie Orbach supports the Tufton 3Susie Orbach

23rd October 2021 by Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic and the author of the iconic Fat is the Feminist Issue. […]

Joe Dunthorne Supports the Tufton 3Joe Dunthorne

22nd October 2021 by Joe Dunthorne

Joe Dunthorne is a prize-winning Welsh novelist, poet and journalist. […]

Rachel Edwards supports the Tufton 3Rachel Edwards

22nd October 2021 by Rachel Edwards

Rachel Edwards is a popular TV and print social commentator and the author of the celebrated novels Darling and Lucky. […]

Caroline Lucas Supports the Tufton 3Caroline Lucas

21st October 2021 by Caroline Lucas

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. […]

Irvine Welsh Supports the Tufton 3Irvine Welsh

20th October 2021 by Irvine Welsh

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. […]

Max Porter Supports the Tufton 3Max Porter

20th October 2021 by Max Porter

Max Porter is the award-winning author of the celebrated novels Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny. […]

Ruth Padel supports the Tufton 3Ruth Padel

20th October 2021 by Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel is a conservationist, prize-winning poet, novelist, short-story writer, academic and broadcaster. […]

Anouchka Grose supports the Tufton 3Anouchka Grose

18th October 2021 by Anouchka Grose

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. […]

Jonathon Porritt Supports the Tufton 3Jonathon Porritt

13th October 2021 by Jonathon Porritt

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. […]

Support the Tufton 3Jessica Townsend

15th July 2021 by Jessica Townsend

A Writers Rebel Campaign On Trial for Causing Criminal Damage to the Home of Dark Money Extinction Rebellion co-founder Clare Farrell, Professor Rupert Read and I are in the heart of London to perform an act of civil disobedience. Later, we expect to be arrested. I don’t know about the others, but I’m nervous. […]

Watch: Paul Hilder lays out the facts of the matterPaul Hilder

10th September 2020 by Toby Litt

Paul Hilder was one of twenty speakers at 55 Tufton Street. His was the most forensic attack on Climate Change denial. After watching this, you’ll be left in no doubt how we’re being played, and who we’re being played by. If you feel strongly about the climate and ecological emergency, join us and help […]