Edward Platt
Articles by Edward Platt
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Society
Low rise and shallow fall
- 08 February 2012
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.
Society
The city on the edge of the world
- 31 October 2011
- 4 comments
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.
Society
Britain need not be nine meals away from anarchy
- 27 June 2011
- 8 comments
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.
Art
Forbidden city
- 01 October 2010
- 1 comment
Shut out of Jerusalem, Arab artists have responded cleverly.
Middle East
For Arabs in Israel, a house is not a home
- 30 August 2010
- 13 comments
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.
Environment
The cockney Siberia
- 05 March 2010
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.
Middle East
Graveyard shift
- 25 January 2010
- 2 comments
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
Middle East
A state of collapse
- 12 November 2009
- 3 comments
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
Middle East
Crying out for justice
- 02 July 2009
- 5 comments
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
Middle East
Settlers or squatters?
- 21 May 2009
- 4 comments
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.
