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What’s Happening in Sweden?

A long read about Sweden, its story of itself and the role this country plays in the political imagination of millions of people who have never been here.

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Negotiating the Surrender

An essay written for This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook (Penguin, 2019).

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After We Stop Pretending

An essay for Dark Mountain: Issue 15 on the strange hot summer of 2018 and the beginnings of the new climate movements.

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Ten Years on a Mountain: A Farewell

Written to accompany the announcement of my departure from Dark Mountain after ten years at the heart of the project.

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The Consequences of Unacknowledged Loss

An essay written for the programme for the Orange Tree Theatre production of Joe White’s Mayfly.

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Seeing in the Dark: A Tribute to John Berger

A tribute to a writer by whose work so many of us found our bearings. Written for Contemporary Theatre Review.

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Three Seasons With CEMUS

This essay was my contribution to the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University.

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Childish Things

This essay on the role of art in modernity and its relationship to the sacred was written for Dark Mountain: Issue 12 – SANCTUM.

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How Climate Change Arrives

An essay for The Precariat, a one-off newspaper published by the organisers of Planet B festival in Peterborough.

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The Fall of the Murdoch Wall

An angry, hopeful reflection written in the days after the UK general election of 2017.