Author: Mike Hannis

Mike Hannis has lived in Somerset since 1992. He writes mainly about environmental politics, has an academic job in the West Country, and is an editor of The Land magazine.

Power, land and pie

Mike Hannis

Britain woke up on July 5 to find that fourteen years of Tory government was over. Sunak was gone, and his predecessor, whose 49-day tenure was even more disastrous than predicted, had capped her sparkling career by struggling to find her way offstage after unexpectedly losing her very safe seat. Older readers may remember watching […]

Better days ahead?

Mike Hannis

In this proud new era of unchallenged sovereignty, no opportunity is missed to make clear that ‘Britain is best’. Even when the UK drugs regulator licenced a Covid-19 vaccine created in Germany by a Turkish couple, for a US drug company to manufacture in Belgium, a government minister explained that this proved British scientists were […]