Alex Lockwood

Writer, activist and public speaker
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Trident placards

I’m fasting in protest against Britain’s nuclear weapons—and you should too

  • August 6
  • Alex Lockwood

Nuclear weapons never went away. Whether it’s Trump insulting Rocket Man, or their later appeasement at the Singapore summit,...

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Blog, Chernobyl Privileges, Readings

The Chernobyl Privileges’ first outing

  • February 19
  • Alex Lockwood

Join a bunch of great writers, and me, at Guy Mankowski‘s fabulous New Art Social this coming Saturday 3rd...

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Blog, Chernobyl Privileges

Mayak sixty years on: radiation leaks and cover-ups in Putin’s Russia

  • December 18
  • Alex Lockwood

The starting point for writing The Chernobyl Privileges came about because, coming up to the 30th anniversary of one...

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Blog, Novel Writing, Writing

Working with outlines, doing away with time

  • December 19
  • Alex Lockwood
  • 5

The other day I said I’d go and meet H at 1230. We arranged this a couple of hours...

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Blog, Writing Blog

A word on motivation for writing a novel

  • August 28
  • Alex Lockwood

When do you know you’re ready to write a novel? I say novel, rather than book, because although other...

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Activism, Animals, Blog, Churchill 2014, Reviews

The Ghosts in Our Machine

  • August 27
  • Alex Lockwood
  • 3

There is a guy sitting in front of me crying. He looks like the kind of person I’d be...

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Animals, Blog, Churchill 2014

On Board the Soundwatch Boat

  • July 13
  • Alex Lockwood

The Soundwatch Boater Education Progamme has been running for nearly twenty-five years. Eric Eisenhardt, the current director, is into...

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Animals, Blog, Churchill 2014

Beeping Hearts: in the Whale Museum

  • July 10
  • Alex Lockwood
  • 2

A little way into Cindy’s presentation to this group of college biology majors from the local university I suddenly...

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Blog, Running

Running and academia: the intellectual aspect of pounding the pavements

  • July 9
  • Alex Lockwood

This article was originally published on the Guardian running blog “Running has become socio-cosmic,” anthropologist Allen Abramson announces to...

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Animals, Blog, Churchill 2014

Storying with CETUS, Victoria BC

  • July 8
  • Alex Lockwood

It’s nice when someone gets it. Not only get it, but when what you want to do is something...

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Blog, Churchill 2014, Running

Vancouver Canada Day 10k, race report

  • July 2
  • Alex Lockwood

Small world. You travel half way across the top of the globe to take on Vancouver’s finest* in the...

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Activism, Animals, Blog, Churchill 2014

Forty-five days

  • June 28
  • Alex Lockwood

The chickens are 20 to a crate, and the crates are moved in piles of 2 x 5 by...

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