Tag: Politics

  • We shall encounter, counting, face to face

    We shall encounter, counting, face to face

    Thoughts on the General Election and Reform UK in Maldon constituency. Last Thursday, I stayed up all night for the first time in years. It was the UK General election of course and despite the perils of displaced slumber I was minded to burn the midnight oil and watch the disgraced fall. I didn’t have…

  • Realecologik

    Realecologik

    I was chatting the other day (informally) with someone involved with NetZero planning for the UK Government. I was spitballing my usual ideas, which were all getting shot down as politically infeasible: “No one will vote for that”. It felt to me like the sets of actions which were considered ‘politically possible’ and those that…

  • The Hour is Getting Late

    The time we have left to avoid climate disaster is getting short and the sun is setting on the opportunity to avoid catastrophe. Not that you would know it from the political inactivity around here.

  • Landscape Scale Land Management

    At the Oxford Real Farming Conference I attended the session ‘Shaping our future together’ organised by CTRLShift and facilitated by Andy Goldring. Rather than a presentation from the front, this session was designed to create a space for collaboration and planning between organisations, practitioners and networks building on the process started in Wigan, March 2018…

  • Climate Emergency

    On 8th December I posted on social media about trying to find a point of agency in the face of the wicked problem of climate change – partly re-energised by the Extinction Rebellion actions: ‘I’ve never been a member of a political party, I’ve always been against it on the basis that joining a political…