As the the radical sociologist’s life is commemorated in a new film, Horatio Morpurgo wonders what words of encouragement he might have had for the #Occupy movement.
Articles by Horatio Morpurgo
Tarnac and the Echoes
L’affaire Tarnac is a story little-followed outside of France. Horatio Morpurgo tracks down the collective – whose members have been accused by the police of terrorist activity – and explains why we should all be paying more attention.
- December 1, 2009
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Global warming and the King’s Arms pub
Horatio Morpurgo supplies an environmental missing link.
- June 1, 2008
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Hold Everything Dear – Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
Hold Everything Dear – Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
- November 1, 2007
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The Bay of Napoli
Horatio Morpurgo visits the scene of the Napoli, a container ship grounded off the coast of Britain, to see what lies beneath it.
- February 14, 2007
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The Old Lady and New Europe
Horatio Morpurgo unearths the seeds of future discord in Romania and Bulgaria.
- October 1, 2006
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The North Caspian - what am I bid?
A visit to the new oil frontier in Kazakhstan leaves Horatio Morpurgo wondering where on earth we go from here.
- November 1, 2005
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How to be reconciled with an oil-spill
Horatio Morpurgo writes from the devastated coast of Galicia in the wake of the Prestige disaster.
- April 1, 2003
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Feet and Mouths
Feet and mouths _ Britain’s food and farming crisis, as seen by Horatio Morpurgo.
- August 1, 2001
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The Girl Store
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‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
2012-04-0116 Jamie Kelsey-Fry‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
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Death, justice and the big questions
2012-05-0912 Tony MckennaWith capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
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Some thoughts on becoming a woman in India
2012-05-1110 Mari Marcel ThekaekaraIn some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
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F**k off Boris!
2012-03-2710 Alan HughesAlan Hughes can’t believe the nerve of the London Mayor, who’s trying to dupe people into cleaning up the capital ahead of the Olympics.
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