Jason Goodwin

Jason Goodwin: 'This is what it might be like if we weren’t so persistently restless and noisy and greedy and exploitative'

Nature's recovery over the last year, as lockdown changed life as we know it, has been startling. Jason Goodwin wonders if we can keep it going.

Jason Goodwin: 'I kept heading south, choosing turnings at random, with a deepening sense of time suspended'

Following his nose sees Jason Goodwin end up in the quirkily-named village of Pendomer, a place with a distinctly English tale to tell.

Jason Goodwin: 'What gets lost will be forever lost, whereas pylons, cars and trains may be rendered obsolete'

Jason Goodwin muses on economics, Stonehenge and social media.

Jason Goodwin: The price of Absolute Power? Turns out it's £250 a week +VAT

An unforgettable week at the controls of a metal monster goes to Jason Goodwin's head.

Jason Goodwin: 'Kieth knew three men who died by falling — it would have been four if he and his mate hadn’t caught the fellow as he toppled from the oversail'

Jason Goodwin tells the tale of his friends Kieth and Maureen Cockroft: roofers, tilers, trailblazers and Hell's Angels.

Jason Goodwin: 'I suspect the Church of England views parish churches as a burden and a nuisance'

Our columnist Jason Goodwin fears that the Archbishop of Canterbury 'may possibly think too much of his own gifts and too little of what has been bequeathed over the centuries'.

Jason Goodwin: The night I accidentally sent a friend to go dogging on a remote West Country hilltop

Oh, Jason. It could have happened to anyone.

Jason Goodwin: Supermarkets sell 10,000 different things, but it turned out we hardly need any of them

Jason Goodwin's local farm shop has it all — including prices which ring up in historic dates.

Jason Goodwin: 'My friend was puzzled to discover me up a stepladder, cradling my airgun and scanning vegetable beds'

Jason Goodwin takes on the rats, and loses.

Jason Goodwin: 'I found myself shaking my fist at an aeroplane, as outraged by the interruption as any uncontacted tribesman in the rainforest'

Jason Goodwin's efforts to transcribe his father's colourful life story are suffering all sorts of unusual interruptions.

Jason Goodwin: 'There's a hum about the whole house that reminds me of a great ship charting its course through the high seas'

The gardener’s lot is a happy one, says Jason Goodwin, even though you might end up with an inch of wood in your hand.

Jason Goodwin: 'A Journal of the Plague Year is not a cheerful read, but it’s a wonderful book for the times'

Jason Goodwin: 'He had power of a prophet who knows he is right, because there is only one way of living sustainably'

Our spectator columnist admires H. J. Massingham, the journalist who became a sustainable visionary before his time.

Jason Goodwin: 'Urine is sterile – I recommend the bucket-by-the-back-door method, myself'

A single hen can produce about 10lb of manure a month and is the perfect compost accelerator – although Jason Goodwin is looking a little closer to home to produce his compost this year.

Jason Goodwin: 'My own predictions would be for the return of fountain pens and safety razors'

Jason Goodwin suspects that shag carpets may not be making a comeback, but praises the few things that Brexit could bring to our doorsteps – especially those which significantly lessen our environmental impact.

Jason Goodwin: 'I pedalled for dear life with the devil at my back'

A nighttime excursion leaves our columnist with one clear thought: do less of this sort of thing.

Jason Goodwin: 'It was only later, in the kitchen, that he was told that Gludenfrieda’s actual name was Rachel'

Jason Goodwin examines the truth behind diet fads in an attempt to discover who is actually making waves in saving the planet.

In Focus: The scandalous child of Empire, the murderous photographer and the woman who fatally brought them together

Eadweard Muybridge was not only the pioneering photographer of motion, but also a murderer. Jason Goodwin relishes this tale of the dashing rogue and adventurer who became his victim.

Jason Goodwin: 'In the rain it looks like a teahouse in a run-down corner of Uzbekistan'

Jason Goodwin explains the origins of his garden glass house; a twinkling, relaxing spot in summer, but come winter, a place where no one dare go but the mice.

Jason Goodwin: 'A rising wall of grey water threatened to dash me onto the stones like a rag doll'