Tufton Street Archives - Writers Rebel

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. […]

THE TUFTON PRAGMATISTSZadie Smith

30th April 2023 by Zadie Smith

Following her appearance at The Big One on April 21st 2023, Zadie Smith has shared the definite text of her piercing speech with Writers Rebel. It is reproduced here exclusively. Hello. I want to speak to you today about a man called Craig Mackinlay, MP. Craig campaigns against flagship green policies, and is […]

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 […]

Bill McGuire’s letter to Fritz Vahrenholt of the GWPF

18th October 2022 by Bill McGuire

Dear Dr Fritz Vahrenholt, You will be aware of Steve Baker’s decision to stand down from his position as Trustee in order to take up his government post unmarred by an association with the Global Warming Policy Foundation. I write to you in earnest to ask you to consider doing the same. You must […]

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 […]

Rupert Read’s Letter to Peter Edwards of the GWPF

13th October 2022 by Rupert Read

20th September 2022 Dear Professor Edwards, I am writing to you in regards to your position as a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. As you will know Steve Baker recently left that role and I am hoping to persuade you to also step down. I am an associate professor, working at a […]

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 […]

Toby Litt’s Letter to Terence Mordaunt of the GWPFToby Litt

10th October 2022 by Toby Litt

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 […]

Monique Roffey’s Letter to Kathy Gyngell of the GWPF

7th October 2022 by Monique Roffey

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 […]

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 […]

Jessica Townsend’s Court StatementJessica Townsend

5th November 2021 by toby

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 […]

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. […]

Listen: Where is the heart of climate denial in the UK?

24th November 2020 by toby

Who are the main people and organisations coming between the UK people and policy progress to address the climate and ecological emergency? Questions like this led Writers Rebel to organize an action in a quiet privileged street in the heart of the parliamentary district in London. The Writers Rebel action in Tufton Street: No More […]

Watch: Esther Stanford-Xosei reading Ken Saro-Wiwa

12th November 2020 by Esther Stanford-Xosei

The following reading is from Ken Saro-Wiwa’s speech, which he was prevented from reading in court towards the end of his trial by the Military Tribunal, that sentenced him to death by hanging on October 31, 1995. It gives historical context to the justice-focused activism of communities of resistance in Nigeria, like the Movement for […]

Read: Tufton Street – Fiery Words Under a Police HelicopterCharlotte Du Cann

17th September 2020 by Charlotte Du Cann

Charlotte Du Cann speaking outside 55 Tufton Street.

The next revolution – World War III – will be waged inside your head. It will be a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or even around scarce resources of the earth, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, on TV and in […]

Watch: Zadie Smith on grief, protest and liesZadie Smith

10th September 2020 by Zadie Smith

Photo of Zadie Smith speaking at Tufton Street by Kelly Hill.

On 2 September 2022, Zadie Smith joined Writers Rebel at 55 Tufton Street, and delivered a speech that has already been shared and watched thousands of times. This is a defining moment in the struggle for climate justice. If you feel strongly about the climate and ecological emergency, join us and help make a […]