My generation's star has done it again. You can tell they're special when they're still getting better with every book - as this one is, stunningly. Is A River Alive is more than a book: it will be seen as a turning point, like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Get it, give it, now!

As my wife points out: 'He's a luminary. That turns into electronic dance music!' All hail the corncrake...

It's such a simple positive step for nature – a £35 hollow brick in every new home for endangered cavity-nesting birds, especially marvellous swifts. Builders in favour too. All Labour MPs have to do is vote for a Labour MP's amendment to make it happen. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Episode by Mary Ann Kenny: 5-star review telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

First review of We Came By Sea and it's a beauty! Thank you, Maggie Fergusson... spectator.co.uk/article/its-tr…

What Nicola said - We Came By Sea and Anywhere But Here - - come and help us change the national conversation...

I don't live in a nation of strangers. I live in a nation of friends and unknown friends. I live in a truly Great Britain

Published writers - for the last few days Kapka Kassabova, Monqiue Roffey and I have been gathering signatures for an open letter (coming early this week) calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. If you would like to see it with a view to signing, please send me your email. Thank you.

We did this. Proud of everyone who signed theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

At Hay Festival meet up with Horatio Clare who was the new boy in the BBC Arts Unit when I was a Night Waves presenter. The boy done good, as we’re wont to say in our elitist Olympian way.

We Came By Sea is out now, too! Let's change this situation...

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… We Came by Sea TV. At 11'35" the fun begins. Thank you so much, Charlotte Wright and BBC Politics S.East. Sorry about the PR car crash, Putin-pal Nigel Farage and GB News. Your time is UP

Changing the narrative on the small boats with Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today - a real treat to work and duel with the worlds' best broadcasters . . . We Came by Sea - stories of a Greater Britain

Stressful job? Try rescuing panicking parents, kids & babies from a sinking boat in the fog. But, writes @horatioclare, these heroes go to work with their heads bowed, hoping they won’t be abused by Nigel Farage for being “a taxi service for migrants” thetablet.co.uk/features/the-s…

Coming to London in August! Nicola Kelly Horatio Clare

This is a big story. Finally, the BBC its actual self, credited here as 'BBC insiders', speaks out, after all the flak it's taken for not being allowed to be itself theguardian.com/media/2025/jul…

Hurrah! We're delighted to finally be able to announce that Alys Conran, Joshua Jones | Local Fires and Horatio Clare have joined the Folding Rock Magazine team as Contributing Editors - to help widen our search for the best new writing from and connected to Wales.

Next book event: Foyles Bookshop, 6 August with Sally Hayden and @horatioclare. Tickets below, see you there! On Migration: Sally Hayden, Nicola Kelly & Horatio Clare share.google/WKRSJzvjZIps6G…

Meeting people trying to reach Britain in small boats gave Horatio Clare a vision for change, he tells Sarah Meyrick churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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