Paul Kingsnorth’s personal-radical farewell to green-movementism - the essay "Confessions of a recovering environmentalist" - generated a rich and earthy response. Andrew Dobson, the pioneer of “ecologism” and of green political thought, questioned the key choice the essay offered. Now, Paul Kings
"Environmentalism, which in its raw, early form had no time for the encrusted, seized-up politics of left and right, has been sucked into the yawning, bottomless chasm of the 'progressive' left." A personal, twenty-year journey through the world’s wild places and the movements to protect them is a
The exhaustion of the planet and existing ways of life presents a creative challenge: exploring “uncivilisation”. Paul Kingsnorth introduces the Dark Mountain Project.
Paul Kingsnorth responds to Mark Perryman's call in Breaking up Britain for a progressive English identity.
‘What is Englishness?' is a question I have always studiously avoided
Paul Kingsnorth (Oxford, author): In a recent, and very interesting, post here on OK, in which he dissects Enoch Powell’s views on ‘cultural essentialism’, Sunder Katwala of the Fabian
What kind of country has Britain become; does multiculturalism enrich or damage its people's lives; and is English national identity a route to political progress or a journey
This is the second part of an exchange on national identity and belonging sparked by Paul Kingsnorth's review of Vron Ware's book. We will be publishing
Paul Kingsnorth reviews Who cares about Britishness? by Vron Ware.
(Ware, Arcadia Books, July 2007, 180pp)
It doesn’t seem an especially good start to this book-length exploration of the
It was when they silenced the free-tea man that I knew something was wrong.
A friendly young man had brought a kettle, cups and a few packets of tea bags
The man at the Socially Responsible Banking stall has his head in his hands. Business for him is slow to nonexistent. He looks glumly across at the stall opposite,
The British people are disillusioned with the political process and with politicians themselves. As Stuart Weir reports on openDemocracy following the latest State of the Nation survey, people believe that
