Written January 2025 I have a lot of time for Paul Kingsnorth as a writer and thinker. He’s now an Orthodox Christian but I first came across him through his book Real England: The Battle Against The Bland which was published in 2009. This was written when he was primarily an environmentalist of some sort with an overlay of atheism/wicca/paganism (he seemed to chop and change quite regularly, a proper quester!). I loved this book as it articulated lots of things I had long felt but felt unable to really express on the flattening down and homogenisation of our country...