"...there is a strong case to be made for getting someone senior, with a title to match, who can knock heads together …"

"As economic libertarians, these people believe that markets should be free, formed by the rational actions of rationa…"

"These people are not quite an aristocracy. Perhaps they are simply the blogeoisie (pronounced bloj-wah-zee), a domina…"

"Whatever analogy we choose, one thing is clear - any group with influence needs people outside that group who will cr…"

"The enlightenment idea of privacy is breaking apart under the strain of new technologies, social tools and the emerge…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"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…"