I’m fasting in protest against Britain’s nuclear weapons—and you should too
Nuclear weapons never went away. Whether it’s Trump insulting Rocket Man, or their later appeasement at the Singapore summit,...
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The Chernobyl Privileges’ first outing
Join a bunch of great writers, and me, at Guy Mankowski‘s fabulous New Art Social this coming Saturday 3rd...
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Mayak sixty years on: radiation leaks and cover-ups in Putin’s Russia
The starting point for writing The Chernobyl Privileges came about because, coming up to the 30th anniversary of one...
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Working with outlines, doing away with time
The other day I said I’d go and meet H at 1230. We arranged this a couple of hours...
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A word on motivation for writing a novel
When do you know you’re ready to write a novel? I say novel, rather than book, because although other...
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The Ghosts in Our Machine
There is a guy sitting in front of me crying. He looks like the kind of person I’d be...
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On Board the Soundwatch Boat
The Soundwatch Boater Education Progamme has been running for nearly twenty-five years. Eric Eisenhardt, the current director, is into...
Read MoreBeeping Hearts: in the Whale Museum
A little way into Cindy’s presentation to this group of college biology majors from the local university I suddenly...
Read MoreRunning and academia: the intellectual aspect of pounding the pavements
This article was originally published on the Guardian running blog “Running has become socio-cosmic,” anthropologist Allen Abramson announces to...
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Storying with CETUS, Victoria BC
It’s nice when someone gets it. Not only get it, but when what you want to do is something...
Read MoreVancouver Canada Day 10k, race report
Small world. You travel half way across the top of the globe to take on Vancouver’s finest* in the...
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Forty-five days
The chickens are 20 to a crate, and the crates are moved in piles of 2 x 5 by...
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