Category Archives: Reviews

Obama and Bear Grylls

I was going to write about something else but in my last post before Christmas had to write about Obama and Bear Grylls.  It was with some amazement I learned this programme with the two of them was being made, … Continue reading

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One thing we have learnt this week – Power to the people

Power to the people- not the cry of “Citizen Smith” (look it up), but a programme on BBC4 this week following SSE energy over a year.  Scottish and Southern Energy is one of the “big six”, its ex now retired … Continue reading

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Flight Behaviour review

There are not many secular books that bring Christianity and climate change (amongst other things) together but “Flight Behaviour” by Barabara Kingsolver is one.  I recently came across  this book and thought it looked interesting.  In “Flight Behaviour” the chief … Continue reading

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Noah

We got round to watching Noah on DVD last weekend.  In the 1980’s the alternative comedians in the UK combined to make a series of short films called “The Comic Strip Presents”.  One of these was a 1 hour special … Continue reading

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Food prices

“Food prices; the shocking truth” was a programme broadcast on channel 4 with Jimmy Doherty presenting.  Jimmy Doherty is a pig farmer based in Suffolk my co-author Andy pointed his farm out as we were on the way to London … Continue reading

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Blackout

Someone once said you are only three meals from anarchy.  So it was with some trepidation I watched a docu drama on Channel 4 television (UK) called “Blackout”.  Trepidation because I thought the drama would be quite harrowing, and it … Continue reading

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Thoughts about Greenbelt on its 40th birthday

  Again we have just returned from Greenbelt.  I first went in 1983 with the church youth group to Knebworth (the year after a certain up and coming Irish band gatecrashed the main-stage).  I went back as a student in … Continue reading

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Review

Another good review for “No oil in the lamp” this time by Green Christian magazine. “The first thing that made me sit up was the review that read “Neil and Andy have set out the background to the issue of … Continue reading

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The little green book

The little green book is new from a new publisher called “Wide Margin” books who published “Carnival Kingdom” which I will be reviewing soon.  This tiny book is written as a response to the state the planet is in as … Continue reading

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Aftermath: World Without Oil

I recently was looking for music videos and found a documentary made in 2010 which looks at peak oil (quite out of place in that section of the well known video site).  It does so from the unusual and extreme … Continue reading

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