"Boris Johnson has real contempt for Londoners. He hates that we celebrate each other's heritage; he hates that we try…"

"Keir Starmer is abandoning so many pledges so quickly, it's sending a real message to people on the left – that they …"

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"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"

"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"When I retired a couple of years ago and decided to get certified teaching, I told myself that I would want to help o…"

"England, our native country, one of the most renowned monarchies in the world, against which the Pope beareth a speci…"