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Low rise and shallow fall

Edward Platt — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:14:47 GMT

In the second of his English Journeys, Edward Platt visits the Essex hinterland where he was born, and discovers that there�s more to this county than stereotypical manual workers and brash, self-made millionaires.

The city on the edge of the world

Edward Platt — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In 1933, J B Priestley set off to discover �the common well of Englishness�. In the first of a new series following in his footsteps, award-winning writer Edward Platt travels to the isolated, defiant outpost of Hull.

Britain need not be nine meals away from anarchy

Edward Platt — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

As oil prices peak and we approach the end of the age of cheap food, now is the time for city-dwellers to reclaim urban areas for agriculture. A first-hand report uncovers the amazing hidden farms of London.

Forbidden city

Edward Platt — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:42:43 GMT

Shut out of Jerusalem, Arab artists have responded cleverly.

For Arabs in Israel, a house is not a home

Edward Platt — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:54:56 GMT

Three representatives of Hamas have been forced to seek sanctuary at the Red Cross compound in East Jerusalem � charged not with terrorism, but with �disloyalty� to the state. Edward Platt on a strange case of exile inside Israel.

The cockney Siberia

Edward Platt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:17:52 GMT

The Thames Gateway development is the largest urban regeneration scheme ever attempted in Britain. If it fails, the area risks becoming a vast wilderness robbed of its rich natural landscape and cultural heritage.

Graveyard shift

Edward Platt — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:05:58 GMT

The construction of a museum of tolerance in Jerusalem � on the site of an ancient Arab cemetery � has involved mass exhumations, and caused hurt and outrage among Palestinians

A state of collapse

Edward Platt — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:43:16 GMT

Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to strengthen �co-operation between peoples�, but his attempts to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together have failed

Crying out for justice

Edward Platt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:18:45 GMT

As the latest inquiry into Israel�s war on Gaza hears the harrowing testimonies of Palestinian survivors, Edward Platt exposes the obstacles in the way of truth and a fair trial

Settlers or squatters?

Edward Platt — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:37:48 GMT

The politics of demolition and construction in East Jerusalem have always been fraught. Now Israeli settlers are using archaeological excavation as cover for a programme of expansion and dispossession � but the inhabitants of one Palestinian village won�t go quietly.