If it’s here, it ain’t there.
Yesterday I wrote a slightly barbed critique of what I felt were unnecessarily vague and conditional comments on the recent floods by an expert on hydrology, Professor…
Science and the English Language
Science and the English Language. A book George Orwell never wrote, but should have. But anyone who wants to write (or speak) accessible English should read the…
Storm Desmond (or Eva or Frank) in a tea-pot?
I get the impression the media is catching up. Two mornings running now we’ve had people on the Today programme talking sense. Today Professor David Balmforth,…
Instead of dredging?
I’ve written about why dredging doesn’t work. Here’s a (timely) post by way of suggesting at least one part of an alternative approach: a Norfolk Rivers Trust “re-wilding” project…
Emmanuel’s Common One Year On
This is a set of before-and-after images from a river recreation project at Emmanuel’s Common on the River Nar. This is a brand-new river channel cut…
Why Dredging Makes Flooding Worse
Piers Morgan tells Liz Truss MP that she needs a ‘department for the unprecedented’, while all the government – or the opposition – can talk about…
Why Dredging Is Not The Answer
I wondered if the next wave of floods would reignite the idea that dredging prevents flooding. When your living room is ruined and your sofa is…
All At Sea
Some photos from my time on the pair-trawler Adorne: a tough, sick-making, humbling, uplifting and fascinating week on the North Sea. The word-story will be in my…
Time for a Cuppa
Friday 24th April, was the final day of a three-year restoration project on the River Nar in Norfolk. Phew! 7km of re-meandering with woody berms, 2km…
Our current analysis suggests that we can’t write plain English
One of the main aims of the recent WWF chalk-streams conference (my presentation is published in a previous blog entry) was to encourage people to comment on the…
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