I've been working on this piece for months - out today in @observeruk.bsky.social. Britain is now “clearly the worst country in Europe" in how it deals with protest. It's about how it happened and why it threatens our democracy, told through letters from jailed activists. tinyurl.com/5n92yve5

Thrilled to be back at @arvonfoundation.bsky.social next spring, teaching with Sophy Roberts, whose work I love. It's a new format, with 2 extra writing days - more time to really work on something and bring it to frutiton. And the azaleas will be in full bloom...Come! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

review of my tiger book by @adamweymouth.bsky.social in New Scientist! "Slaght...is a wonderful guide, his descriptions of this unique landscape bristling with detail & feeling. As I read, I ached to be there, where cliffs forested with Korean pine and oak meet the ocean." shorturl.at/uY3Yk

iperborea.com/titolo/730/i... Out today in Italian - with this absolutely gorgeous cover by Nicola Magrin

Is there a crossword person in your life? Would you like to get them a unique gift? PERHAPS FOR CHRISTMAS? Well maybe a bespoke quiz or cryptic crossword would fit the bill, on any theme, of any size, by the author of [counts on fingers] more than 900 published crosswords, i.e. Me. Give me a shout!

Quotation marks doing some heavy lifting here: www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-worl...

US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for non-violent art museum protestor Timothy Martin - ‘It’s hard to fathom how a peaceful protester can receive more prison time than many of the Jan 6 insurrectionists’ Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My review of Jay Griffiths' hugely entertaining, hugely persuasive 'How Animals Heal Us' in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social - alongside with a gorgeous illustration by @rebeccaclarkart.bsky.social www.resurgence.org/magazine/art...

Very interesting study that suggests the often repeated story - that wolves are losing their fear of humans because we're not hunting them enough - has no basis in fact. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scientists warn escaped farmed salmon could interbreed with wild fish, further endangering Scotland’s fragile populations.

The news is now genuinely indistinguishable from the Onion www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Great example from @davidmacdougall.bsky.social of how wolves so easily & frequently bleed into human politics. "The suggestion that Putin is responsible for the upsetting of the natural order...feeds a common Finnish narrative that nothing good comes from Russia." www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne: What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of? The world's energy experts would like to know…

Gosh. Been trying to write something coherent for a bit but I‘m basically just really excited.

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Horny wolves www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Upcoming wolfish events this autumn - links for tickets in bio

In other (important) news: Reform controlled Kent County Council has just rescinded the climate change emergency declaration www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wrote an essay on non-fiction and truth for The Author, in which I talk about Capote, Graves and Durrell before concluding that writers just need to stop being full of shit.

uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature... @bookshop.org currently has fantastic nature books for cheap, - plenty I've loved, plenty more I'd like to find the time to read - Including @benrawlence.bsky.social, @calflyn.bsky.social, @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social !

And then my local, Margate Bookie, once again on the Sunday midday slot - October 12 - in the Turner on the seafront: www.ticketsource.co.uk/bookie2025/a...

Next up, this one at Wigtown Book Festival (@wigtownbooktown.bsky.social). I've never been, I've heard it's brilliant, I'm expecting ceilidhs and revelry. 5th October, midday tinyurl.com/ysem28yk

Stanfords, on Tuesday evening. @stanfordstravel.bsky.social was where I first fell in love with travel writing - they've been brilliantly supportive ove the years, and I love going back there every time... tinyurl.com/2wn4bvfp

I am looking for books/ articles/ interviews etc about travels with donkeys, outside of the obvious (Stevenson). If anyone's got any recommendations? Thanks

Just went to book the sleeper from London to Penzance - £309 just for the cabin, not even including the ticket. Absolutely batshit. Just came back from France where I paid 60 euros for the cabin on the sleeper from Paris to the Pyrenees.

Lone Wolf is just £1.99 on Kindle today (not quite the 99p it says here, but almost) - presumably this is a good thing? Anyway, get it here: tinyurl.com/27xy5utr

via Global Sumud Flotilla 'Footage from another boat of our Flotilla shows the exact moment the Family Boat was struck from above.'

The Salmon Run podcast is here! 🌍🏃🤝🐟 Listen now to explore: - What happens in human and salmon bodies as we move - How salmon navigate - The importance of salt! - Temperature in a changing climate on.soundcloud.com/QA1LOAVL1fML...

Reform’s climate policies would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy. Our research referenced in today's @DeSmog.com report 1/2

Well this is pretty exciting www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/books-and-au...

not sure you’d be allowed to write this in North Korea, lads

If you’re in the west, there’s a festival in celebration of the salmon, and a salmon run along the Exe, September 20th. These fish need all the love and the attention they can get…. tidelines.uk/blog/salmon-...

What a situation we're in. ▸He said countries were “destroying themselves” with wind energy and said, “I hope they get back to fossil fuels.” The most powerful country in the world is now punishing other countries for addressing the climate crisis.

Have any small publishers/ indie booksellers out there been affected by this? Would be interested in hearing from you www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Great visualisation of the speed that wolves have recolonised Germany www.datapulse.de/en/wolves-in...

16th September 📅 Join us for an evening with @adamweymouth.bsky.social award-winning author of Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe, an unforgettable journey through Europe’s mountainous wilderness. Find out more about Lone Wolf Event at this link www.stanfords.co.uk/event-lone-w...

Just how much of our world's resources are being spent just to make sure that cis men never grow up

🚌 GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock publishes today 🚌 ‘Traversing urban metropolises and desert vistas, GREYHOUND is an erudite study of how living among others became a dying art.’ — Ellen Peirson-Hagger, THE OBSERVER 🚌 Read an excerpt and order a copy: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/greyho...

Help put Farage back in his box 📦 ❗ We're hiring a Digital Mobilisation Officer to help grow and mobilise a nationwide movement against the far right. 🔗 Learn more and apply here: hopenothate.org.uk/about-us/car...

Friends in London, Oxford, Bristol, Edinburgh and Sheffield, here are some dates for your diaries! There will be chat about GREYHOUND which may (or many not) involve: the appification of travel, mobility (who gets to move and who gets left behind), communal space and its privatisation, (1)

There's a few Lone Wolf events coming up in the autumn, starting with this one at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on 16th September... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lone-wolf-...

Wolves can't go to court, so we went for them and won ->The Wildlife News | #Wolves | More info from EcoSearch

Excuse me for tooting Lone Wolf's trumpet, BUT...Silvia Federici is an absolute hero of mine. One of the very best. Her work has inspired me for many years. Last year I got to interview her - turns out meeting your heroes is great. So I'm just over the moon with this endorsement of Lone Wolf.

How popular are post-capitalist/socialist ideas and policies? Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...

This, by @joannapocock.bsky.social has blown me away. It’s about restlessness, and the beautiful, ungraspable moments when no one knows where you are - it’s about nostalgia, and ageing, and the hollowing out of public space - & it’s about why we need each other to survive. Out 14/8 - please read it!

The sudden shift from “the Internet isn’t real life” to “the Internet is real life and everything else is irrelevant” over the last decade or so has been absolutely astounding to witness.

Thank you so much to @ellencph.bsky.social for engaging so deeply with the issues raised in GREYHOUND. 🙏 observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Even by the Sun’s standards this is an insane bit of journalism www.thesun.co.uk/news/3611397...

Worried Alicia Montgomery readers are going to be bitterly disappointed by Lone Wolf