James Piers Taylor

@yourmindfire.bsky.social

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Chair of Dengie Climate Action Partnership, Founder member of eMpower Maldon. Former Chair of Permaculture Association UK. Opinions my own. Centre for Human Ecology alumnus. Born@ 323.57ppm, Pop. 3.82bn Fiat d58. Ω ✈ 30/8/06 #DengieBioregion

Racist public school boy Nigel Farage sycophantically laughing while standing next to convicted felon Donald Trump in front of a tasteless fake gold door
Poster for a People’s Emergency Briefing on the climate and nature crisis in Burnham-on-Crouch. The design has a bright green background with large white text reading “People’s Emergency Briefing” and the National Emergency Briefing logo in the top right corner. Beneath the title, smaller white italic text reads “On the climate and nature crisis,” followed by “Burnham-on-Crouch” in large red lettering. In the lower section, a QR code appears alongside event information: “Film screening followed by an opportunity to chat and share thoughts about the film and the issues it raises.” The venue is the United Reformed Church and the event takes place on 7 August 2026 at 7pm. The website “www.nebriefing.org” is displayed at the bottom.
Screenshot of a blog post titled “the communities we serve.” The post features a wide-angle photograph of the nearly empty interior of the Burnham-on-Crouch East of England Co-op store, showing bare shelving, vacant display areas, and a few people walking through the brightly lit supermarket. Beneath the image is an excerpt explaining that the last fresh food delivery has arrived, the store will close in three days, and no replacement supermarket is expected until a Sainsbury’s opens later in the year. The post is dated 10 June 2026.
Magazine-style cover for the dengiebioregion.blog titled “Long Read” in large black lettering. The background is a textured wash of warm ochre, pink and peach colours, overlaid with a faint outline map of the Dengie Peninsula. Featured article titles are scattered across the cover in black and white text, including Future Rural Reviewed, Dengie in Drought, Neo-rurality, Mezzo-level Entities, Transition Troughs, Local Nature Recovery, and Net Stupid Zero. At the bottom is the date May 2026 beside a small dark-grey logo.
A railway map of South Essex, and North Kent with a new line added in purple connecting Beaulieu Park Station to the London, tilbury and Southend line around Pitsea. Another new purple line connects Tilbury to the HS1 line east of Ebbsfleet. Text in purple in the tope left corner of the map reads: 'GREAT EASTERN MAIN LINE to HS1 CONNECTOR'. The map sits on a wider purple sheet in landscape. To the right of the map is the British Rail double arrow logo, below which is written 'GEMSTONE'
Poster. At the top is an Open Street Map render of the Dengie peninsula with indicative cycle paths In the middle: a black ink image of a bicycle slightly overlays the map. Below these a line of text in black reads "A safe cycle route between every settlement'. Below this another line of text in red and bold reads "Let's reconnect the Dengie". The letters eco in the word reconnect are green.
Nigel Farage at a podium bearing a sign reading ‘Reform Will Fix It’. AI has been used to dress him as Jimmy Saville: he wears a red tracksuit top with the saltire on one side, the Union flag on the other. He has a large cigar in his right hand. He has shoulder length golden hair on his head. He has a large gold watch on his left wrist
Square promotional poster on a light grey background titled “The Wildlife of Maldon and the Dengie” in dark green text. Subheading reads: “Illustrated talk by John Buchanan, author of Wildlife of Maldon.” Date and time: “Thursday 26th February 2026, 7pm–9pm.” Venue: “Southminster United Reformed Church.” Below the heading is a large photograph of a barn owl in flight over green countryside, wings raised and legs extended downward. To the right of the photograph is a blue circular badge stating: “Donations for tea & coffee.” At the bottom, the address is listed: “Southminster United Reformed Church, North Street, Southminster, CM0 7DF.” In the lower right corner is the logo for the Dengie Climate Action Partnership with the tagline “Our home, our future.”
A poster. Background image is a photograph of seagulls in flight, against an overcast sky. The photograph taken from below and shows the underside of the birds. Overlaid are: the logo of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership with the slogan 'our home, our future' (top left corner), text in red reading 'Discovering Nature on the Dengie' (centre), smaller text in black reading "Do you want to learn more about the wildlife of the Dengie Peninsula" (below the red text)
Screen grab of text from linked article. Reads: Among your 10 specific demands to policymakers is one that calls for “debating a withdrawal from low-lying coastal regions of the North and Baltic Seas.” Until now, this has been taboo. KR: In the very long run, over many decades to a century or more, sea levels could rise sharply. That is why we must start discussing it now. If we act early, we will have the time for careful adjustments. FB: We won’t be able to defend some areas against the sea in the long term. We also need to consider where to retreat from the current coastline. For Hamburg, for instance, we need a plan to move the city 30 or 50 kilometers inland to the northeast by 2200. To be clear, no one is suggesting mass relocation tomorrow. But we can already ask whether it makes sense to build a new technology park or major production site right by the shore.
Aerial photograph of fields outside Southminster, Essex. tow-thirds of teh image is the cloudy sky above the fields. The image has been manipulated using AI to include a photo-realistic render of a terrestrial spaceport with a rocket ready to launch. The words 'SOUTHMINSTER SPACEPORT' are overlaid in the NSA typeface in a black colour. In addition: overlaid on the middle left of the image is a circular mission badge with the words 'Dengie Space Programme' and a graphical representation of a space shuttle launching against a background of stars and the full moon.
Screengrab of text: 'Governments with resources will be forced to engage in long, nightmarish episodes of triage: deciding what and who can be salvaged from engulfment by a disordered environment. The choice will need to be made primarily among the poorest, not just abroad but at home. We have already previewed the images, in the course of the organisational and spiritual unravelling that was Hurricane Katrina.At progressively more extreme levels, the decisions will be increasingly harsh: morally agonising to those who must make and execute them - but in the end, morally deadening' - Leon Furth in Gwynne Dyer's 'Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats' (2010)
Photograph of Kemi Badenoch looking down. A Tiny Nigel Farage is appearing from her neckline. White background. Text in grey in top right corner reads: 'Vote Green'
A photograph of 5 books on a rag showing their front covers: Thirty-two Words for Field by Manchán Magan; The Break-Down issue 1; My Techno- Optimism by Vitalik Buterin; The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson; and Radical Abundance by Kai Hero, Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell
A photograph of Russian asset Nigel Farage with Red Square behind him and red sun rays. The word Reform in white is overlaid. It looks very liek theBBC fixup of Jeremy Corbyn
Grab from video of a fire at the COP30 summit. The cartoon dog from the'Thsi is Fine' meme is sat in the middle gropund
Sgreengrab of a Facebook post. Identical text from this Bluesky post above a photograph of the quayside exterior of the White Harte Hotel in Burnham-on-Crouch. Above the text there is the logo of the Green Party of England and Wales accompanied by the words 'Maldon District Green party'
Photorealistic generative AI image of a wine glass shaped tree in a parkland environment. The image is overlaid with text from the 'Champagne glass distribution of wealth' diagram showing that the richest 20% of the world's population hold about 80% of the global wealth, while the poorest 20% are at the thin stem with almost nothing. [That image originated from the 1992 UN Human Development Report highlighting the "champagne glass of world poverty"]
Screengrab of The Guardian newspaper online's 'Politics Live' feed. The headline is 'Three more Reform UK councillors expelled from party over ‘dishonest’ behaviour after leaked video meeting / Footage of online meeting showed Kent county council leader remonstrating with councillors'. Below that are the headline sof four further items in the feed: 'Badenoch declines to say whether or not she thinks Sarah Pochin's black people on TV complaint was racist'; 'Three more Reform UK councillors expelled from party over 'dishonest' behaviour'; 'OBR productivity downgrade to create £20bn hole in budget, more than expected, reports say'; 'Minister defends plan to house asylum seekers in military sites even if it costs more'. Below this is the video of the infamous zoom call between Reform UK Kent county councillors, with the caption 'Suck it up'" Exclusive footage reveals tension inside Reform UK council'
Photograph. The front cover of Wilf Richards’s book The Power of Permaculture Principles. Photograph taken from above. The book is surrounded by other books which are out of focus including Permaculture One, Archigram Ten, Pace Layers 1, Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm, A Thousand Little Machines by Bifo, Village Buildings of Britain by Matthew Rice and the May 2025 issue of the Essex Field Club Newsletter
A photograph of Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch superimposed on a cartoon background of a room on fire - a version of the background used in the 'This is Fine' strip by KC Green.
QR code linking to the web address in the associated post. Above it are a crossed through logo for Reform Uk and the text 'Defend Burnham Against Reform UK/WhatsApp group'
Photograph taken at Zagreb central railway station. Three men sit at night stools around a high round table. There are disposable cups of coffee and packets of cigarettes on the table. Above and behind them is a poster mounted on the station wall. The poster is a pastiche of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, with a train coming up behind the screaming figure. The poster has the text ‘slusas krivu stvar!’. To the right of the image a woman sits at a bench by the station wall.
Montage of video content showing No-fly route London to Cyprus, Day 2: Milano-Bari-Adriatic Sea on Frecciarossa and Blue Star Ferries
Weather heat map of the East of England centred on Essex which has the hottest temperatures. Overlaid at the top left are the logo of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership and the words monthly meet-up. Overlaid in the bottom of the image are the words “Thursday 31st 7-9 pm/URC, Burnham-on-Crouch”
Poster in black and red with a photograph of Jeremy Corbyn in the centre, text in white above the photo reading 'Jeremy Corbyn/No Surrender' and below the photo reading 'A Four-day Week & a Three-day Bender'. A semi-transparent red star is overlaid over the entire image.
Photograph of the ReFill section of Coco and Nut Pantry, Burnham-on-Crouch
Map of the Dengie peninsula in Essex overlaid with lines connecting the rural settlements as an indicator of missing walking and cycling infrastructure
Rural road with SLOW painted on the tarmac just before a ‘national speed limit applies’ road sign.
Screengrab including text and an embedded image. Text above the image reads ‘what kids wanted to do if they had lots of money in 1979’ and ‘[camera emoji] BBC Junior That’s Life’. The image is from video of the aforementioned TV programme: a young boy in a purple polo neck stands in front of a girl. Subtitles on screen show some of his words ‘it’s better to walk than go in a car’. The BBC is overlaid on the image in the top left corner of the screen. Beneath he image text reads ‘From BBC Archive [Twitter blue tick emoji]’ and ‘1979: Junior That’s Life’
A woman crouches to collect a water sample from a brook using a small white bucket on a string. Behind her, a man standing is putting on nitrile gloves. The setting is rural, with long grasses and trees visible in the background
Screengrab of a paragraph from 'Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning' (1913) by Wilde, E. E. It reads: 'The road originally must have been one of the forest tracks made by the natives long years before the arrival of the Romans. The country was largely covered by forest, and the inhabitants cut tracks through the wood as pathways between their various settlements; doubtless many of the still-existing footpaths are relics of those pre-Roman days. May their number never grow less'
AI generated image of a family group cycling through an autumnal woodland
Illustration of three men sat at a table in a pub
Illustration of the February 2025 meeting between Presidents Zelensky and Trump in the Oval Office. Trump has horns. In the background are the faint colours of the Russian flag.
Photograph of Keir Starmer at a podium in Washington in front of the UK and USA flags. On-screen subtitles read ‘there’s a famous slogan in the United Kingdom’
A transport map based on the London Transport rail and tube map showing proposed new rail and tram routes including cross-river options connecting Essex and Kent.
Agenda for the Dengie Climate Action Partnership monthly meeting of 27 February 2025, 8-9pm at Burnham Town Council, Chapel Road, Burnham-on-Crouch CM0 8JA. The listed Agenda items are: 1. Apologies 2. Declarations of Interest 3. Approve previous meeting’s Minutes 4. Local matters 5. Actions from previous Minutes 6. Operational matters 7. Sub-group Updates 8. AOB 9. Next meeting date & venue
Photograph of Pannels Brook on the Dengie Peninsula. Taken from a concrete crossing point of the brook on Wick Farm, Burnham-on-Crouch. Looking South. Reeds are visible on both sides of the brook and a line of trees in a hedgerow runs parallel to the brook on the right-hand side of the photo. The sky in the background is overcast with cloud.
Square image. The background is a section of OpenStreetMap showing an area of countryside on the Dengie peninsula. Pannel's Brook is visible curving around the right-hand side of the map to exit into the River Crouch at the bottom of the image. The logo of the Dengie Climate Action Partnership is overlaid on the map alongside the words "Our home, our future". Beneath this is more text reading: "Thursday 27th February at 6.45pm/Talk by Luke Farnish of The Rivers Trust/Followed by DCAP Meeting 8-9PM"
Screengrab of a Facebook post by Essex Highways sharing a post by Essex County Council This post features an aerial photograph of a red car on a road through the green countryside with perhaps the suggestion of paths running parallel to the road. Below the photo there is text reading: "Our 2025/26 budget plans have been approved by Full Council. This includes a Council Tax increase of 3.75% (a 1.75% general increase and 2% increase in the adult social care precept). Our plans set out how we will spend the more than £2 billion we are responsible for over the next financial year. We will spend this across four areas: the economy, environment, health and ensuring Essex is a great place for children and families. Also announced during the meeting was an extra £12.3 million for highways. The extra funding for improvements will be allocated across several areas, including: £8.5 million to continue the Members’ Highways Initiative £1.6 million increase in the road safety budget £1.3 million for improvements to cycle paths £500,000 new funding to repair damaged road signs £400,000 extra funding to improve drains and reduce the risk of flooding To read more and hear from Cllr Tom Cunningham, Cabinet Member for Highways and Cllr Chris Whitbread, Chancellor of Essex, visit the news section link in our bio."
Screengrab of an email reply from Essex County's Council's Sustainable Travel Planning Officer which reads: 'Dear James, Thank you for your email concerning the next stage of the Essex Transport Strategy. Following the recent announcements by Central Government regarding devolution and local government reorganisation, we are currently reviewing the timetable for the next stages of implementation. A decision regarding further public consultation and timelines will be made by ECC Members as soon as we are able.'
Screengrab of a timeline printed on page 23 of the Essex Transport Strategy - Public Consultation (Part One) 2024 document which includes the text "Public consultation (part two) on the full draft Essex Transport Strategy and Place and Movement" against the timeline point "Winter 2024/2025" and the text "Adaptation of final Essex Transport Strategy, including Place and Movement" against the timeline point "Spring 2025""
Photograph of a woodland in winter with bare trees. In the foreground is some rough undercover and a green wooden sign in the shape of an arrow with “FOOTPATH “ written on it in yellow letters. The arrow points upwards towards the sky.
Photograph of Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop shaking hands at the meeting to amend the German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty, Moscow, Russia, 28 Sep 1939
An image of a page section from the cited book reading: ‘And in the dramatic eighteenth century struggle between the new users of the roads and those who were liable for their maintenance — between the rival assumptions that the traffic must be suited to the roads and that the roads must be suited to the traffic — we have a curiously exact precedent for the constant argument that went on yesterday about the bicycle and the automobile, and that is going on to-day between the Road Authority and the Motor Omnibuses. ‘
Simplified graphic illustrating Elon Musk dressed all in black standing over a seated Donald Trump in the Oval Office
Screen grab from the linked article highlighting the sentence:‘Despite the urgency of the crisis, the UN is relatively relaxed at the prospect of the missed date’