Author Archives: Horatio

Taking the Conservation out of Marine Conservation Zones

This article, for The Ecologist website, is a response to the government’s recent designation of 27 Marine Conservation Zones

Saying No

Here is an article on the NI blog about the current hysteria in the UK around migration from Romania and Bulgaria

Please Do Feed the Pigeons

This article by Fahim Amir, originally Tausend Tauben, appeared on eurozine. You can read my translation here This is for Hazel.

Our Sea Needs Our Say

I’m hosting a discussion about marine conservation and Lyme Bay with Philip Hoare, George Monbiot and Callum Roberts 8 PM on 17th September, at The Electric Palace in Bridport. £7 entrance. See below for details. Sixty square miles of Lyme Bay became the first Marine Protected Area of significant size in English waters in 2008. […]

Full Immersion in a Darkening Time

My review of The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare is in the August / September issue of the London Magazine

Europe: The View from a Homeless Shelter

The June-July issue of the London Magazine has an essay of mine about Europe.

Bringing the Rainforest Home

Here is my review of George Monbiot’s Feral for the New Internationalist

What the Surveillance Culture will Never See

An article ‘re-visiting’ the community in Tarnac, and the writings of Guy Debord, in the light of recent revelations about Mark Kennedy’s involvement in the case. For the New Internationalist blog.

Moby Dick, Chapter 118

You can hear the chapter I read for the Moby Dick Big Read here Eva Stalker has been blogging about the readings here

Local Government’s New Secret Weapon: The Deaf-Aid

This article, about the recent Independence Day Frome event, was posted on the New Internationalist website