I wrote a thing. (And, for clarity, I don’t want any kind of revolt, I want to stay home and do my job) unherd.com/2024/11/a-farm…

A point on IHT: it is paid by people. Corporations don’t pay IHT (nor do charities, pension funds or institutions like the Church Commissioners or Oxbridge colleges, all of which own rural land). Our tax system favours corporate structures over sole traders & partnerships.

Some decent coverage of demonstrations by farmers in London this week, if only to exhibit some grim developments in far right opportunism over food producer's grievances.

Locating the Agrarian Struggles for Land. Streaming live online now youtube.com/live/Vw1IiqkaH…

Introducing the Muslim Foodways Network

It's out 📗🥬 Huge thanks to editors Colin Sage and Mike Goodman & Professor Tim Lang for his blurb routledge.com/Revaluing-Hort…

📻 Workers’ Inquiry - A new podcast series by Notes from Below! Today we launch “Workers Inquiry”, a new podcast series about work, struggle and revolution. Listen here: buff.ly/3W5HDwo

Historic moment for UK farm worker mobilisation, making visible how food is cheapened; by cheapened human labour. Júlia is taking an organic berry farm to an Employment Tribunal for flagrant rights abuses. In Júlia's words: this is the start of a movement. #justiceisnotseasonal

Under 30 and want to organise for a better world? We Rise is the place to be. Sessions include: 🇵🇸 Building solidarity with Palestine ❌ Fighting Trump and the far right 💰 Structural racism in the global economy ...and much more! Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/globalj…

Although anti-populism has a place for ‘the people’, it ultimately aims at the restoration of responsible elite rule: government for the people, rather than of or by them Alex Yates and I in BJPIR

Home Office protest TODAY led by farm workers abused on UK organic fruit farm - afterwards will be a livestreamed seminar from worker testimonies, legal reps and NGOs. 🔗 Here: us02web.zoom.us/j/85971304107?…

On Thursday night I looked out of my boat & knew immediately that something was wrong on the River Roding. The moon was glimmering off the water in a strange way I hadn’t seen before. I went outside to discover an oil slick streaked across the river & the smell of engine oil in

Enjoyed chatting to Anoushka Zoob on Future Natures podcast. Got to talk a bit about the book Pat Brodie and I are working on - covering monopoly tech, imperialism, and eco-modernity in Ireland.

1/5 Goddamn. In 24 hours, this just transition themed edition has become the best-selling volume in Lumpen's history! We're completely overwhelmed with the amount of interest in working class voices ♥️ And thank you to our contributors for their great articles:

If you thought journalism was dead at the BBC Watch Victoria Derbyshire's interview with Sebastian Gorka, Senior Director of Counterterrorism at the White House VD, "Have you just handed victory to President Putin on a plate? It goes downhill from there

A push to rewild farmland in wealthy countries is driving the destruction of forest in poorer ones, a new study finds. Read more: bit.ly/4i81weZ