Books Books Good instincts, bad analysis With respect for the authors’ intentions, JOHN GREEN demonstrates the lack of class consciousness that undermines their critique of dysfunctional Britain
Tuesday 01st Aug 2023 Remember this? JOHN GREEN marvels at a vision of working-class lives in the industrial Midlands, pre-Thatcher
Friday 04th Aug 2023 War: is it in our genes? Capitalism drives modern warfare — but our species has waged determined and passionate campaigns of murder against each other long before its arrival. How can we begin to explain this, asks JOHN GREEN
Friday 12th May 2023 From industrial revolution's lifelines to spaces of leisure JOHN GREEN looks at the Britain’s canal network, its historical arteries
Obituary Friday 28th Apr 2023 Obituary Harry Belafonte 1927 - 2023 JOHN GREEN pays tribute to the activism of a man of political fearlessness
Friday 14th Apr 2023 One swallow does not a summer make Where do swallows go over winter, asks JOHN GREEN
Thursday 06th Apr 2023 Brodowin: King Charles and the post-socialist farm The King was probably attracted to the organic farming methods at the largest ‘biodynamic’ farm in Germany, rather than the politics behind them, muses JOHN GREEN
Book Review Friday 31st Mar 2023 Book Review God’s Rottweillers JOHN GREEN takes issue with a well-researched but politically naive history of the evangelical churches in Latin America
Friday 24th Mar 2023 Bringing beavers to west London JOHN GREEN reports on rewilding attempts in the capital and beyond in order to give a boost to rare or endangered wildlife
Books Tuesday 14th Mar 2023 Books Northern blights JOHN GREEN is fascinated to read a crime thriller written from the point of view of Europe’s northern indigenous people
Books Friday 17th Feb 2023 Books Samovars and blintzes JOHN GREEN yearns for the real-life stories behind a fairy-tale photobook of rural Russian life