
Jenni Russell
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Columnist, The Times; contributing writer, the New York Times; book reviewer, the Sunday Times. Winner of the Orwell Prize for political journalism 2011.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/jenni-russell 26-03-2009 00:26:56
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Before selling off allotments Angela Rayner should think again. The 1925 Allotment Act was designed to provide green space for people without gardens to grow their own affordable fruit & vegetables. For many people,they also provide an important outlet for physical & mental




Drought latest: Southern Water has applied to Steve Reed to suck water from a rare chalk stream, which is home to salmon and otters, below its ecologically safe level ie to a level which could extinguish life within theguardian.com/business/2025/…









I'm sympathetic to many of the points made by Fraser Nelson here, and the gloom and doom can certainly be over-done. However, I also think that Fraser underweights the evidence/facts of the last five or six years. Complex systems can and do go through 'phase transitions' when

Nicola Sturgeon says today she should have paused Gender Self-ID. If only someone had suggested she do just that in January 2020 in full page ads in the Scottish press. Shame LGB Alliance and For Women Scotland were denounced as transphobic by someone called...err... Nicola Sturgeon.


Also want to add: good for Paul Burston and other judges Polari Prize for not caving in to the petulant demands of fellow longlistees to drop John Boyne Books because of his support for J.K. Rowling on trans. Moral courage! telegraph.co.uk/books/news/ter…

We have built a habitat to take the orphaned wildlife from the villages that have been ravaged by building and all green belt that is being lost ! NOW we destroy the orphanage ! Steve Reed and Tony Juniper if your not listening to the pleas of farming and conservation resign !
