Paul Scraton
@paulscraton.bsky.social
Telling Stories
A Dream of White Horses / Bluemoose
Ambassador / Pahar Trust Nepal
Travel and the outdoors:
https://the-winding-trail.com
A Dream of White Horses / Bluemoose
Ambassador / Pahar Trust Nepal
Travel and the outdoors:
https://the-winding-trail.com
And Thomas Mann learned pretty quickly that “non political” is in itself a political stance. I thought we were beyond having to make this decidedly obvious point but clearly not…
Art has political influence, don’t pretend otherwise.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics
From ‘honour’ killings to nuclear war, some screen works have led directly legislative action – despite what jury head Wenders suggested at the Berlin film festival
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:02 AM
And Thomas Mann learned pretty quickly that “non political” is in itself a political stance. I thought we were beyond having to make this decidedly obvious point but clearly not…
Want to write something for is and read with us at our event later this month? There’s still time to submit…
WE WANT YOUR PROSE—submit now to read at our Feb 21 Lettrétage event about Christa Wolf (and her post-Wall writing e.g. One Day A Year). Send us some short prose in any language about the day, the daily, the recurring date, everyday politics. We will print a zine!
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February 6, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Want to write something for is and read with us at our event later this month? There’s still time to submit…
Reposted by Paul Scraton
deadline closes FEB 10TH send us your BEST
WE WANT YOUR PROSE—submit now to read at our Feb 21 Lettrétage event about Christa Wolf (and her post-Wall writing e.g. One Day A Year). Send us some short prose in any language about the day, the daily, the recurring date, everyday politics. We will print a zine!
sites.google.com/view/mayroec...
sites.google.com/view/mayroec...
February 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM
deadline closes FEB 10TH send us your BEST
"We failed to protect our winters, and now we don’t know how to handle it when it makes a ghostly return..."
Our latest newsletter from The Winding Trail went out into the world this morning.
the-winding-trail.com/2026/02/06/p...
Our latest newsletter from The Winding Trail went out into the world this morning.
the-winding-trail.com/2026/02/06/p...
Postcard 03: Protect our winters
The coldest winter in sixteen years reminds us of what has been lost…
the-winding-trail.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:45 AM
"We failed to protect our winters, and now we don’t know how to handle it when it makes a ghostly return..."
Our latest newsletter from The Winding Trail went out into the world this morning.
the-winding-trail.com/2026/02/06/p...
Our latest newsletter from The Winding Trail went out into the world this morning.
the-winding-trail.com/2026/02/06/p...
A short Sunday run during which Fläming never felt so wild and inhospitable, except… a good proportion of this run was done on the immaculately cleared bike paths that link the villages and keep people moving whether on two wheels or two feet, whatever the weather…
#adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
#adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
January 25, 2026 at 9:48 AM
A short Sunday run during which Fläming never felt so wild and inhospitable, except… a good proportion of this run was done on the immaculately cleared bike paths that link the villages and keep people moving whether on two wheels or two feet, whatever the weather…
#adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
#adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Reposted by Paul Scraton
Available from all good bookshops!
January 18, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Available from all good bookshops!
Our latest piece for The Winding Trail is all about our unexpected trip to the Netherlands and how it is sometimes in the moment when plans are derailed that journeys of discovery begin...
the-winding-trail.com/2026/01/17/t...
#adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor #travel
the-winding-trail.com/2026/01/17/t...
#adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor #travel
January 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Our latest piece for The Winding Trail is all about our unexpected trip to the Netherlands and how it is sometimes in the moment when plans are derailed that journeys of discovery begin...
the-winding-trail.com/2026/01/17/t...
#adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor #travel
the-winding-trail.com/2026/01/17/t...
#adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor #travel
Den Haag in the snow…
January 7, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Den Haag in the snow…
Netherlands. This was not in any plan, but quite taken by Den Haag and surroundings…
January 6, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Netherlands. This was not in any plan, but quite taken by Den Haag and surroundings…
Thirty years since the end of the greatest comic strip of all time… and it landed with a message of joy…
December 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Thirty years since the end of the greatest comic strip of all time… and it landed with a message of joy…
It's almost the end of the year and no more books will be finished before the clock strikes midnight tomorrow night, so it's time to year my favourite reads of the year…
December 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
It's almost the end of the year and no more books will be finished before the clock strikes midnight tomorrow night, so it's time to year my favourite reads of the year…
Our latest postcard from The Winding Trail. In it, we reflect a little on the strange, calm beauty of these days 'between the years' and share a short film about Nepal and link to some of our latest writing and photography, including a long read from Japan.
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/28/p...
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/28/p...
December 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Our latest postcard from The Winding Trail. In it, we reflect a little on the strange, calm beauty of these days 'between the years' and share a short film about Nepal and link to some of our latest writing and photography, including a long read from Japan.
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/28/p...
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/28/p...
Between the years…
December 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Between the years…
Christmas walk to our local lake… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
December 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Christmas walk to our local lake… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Strolling into Christmas, from Wedding to Hohenschönhausen… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
December 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Strolling into Christmas, from Wedding to Hohenschönhausen… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
We've added a new highly subjective guide to The Winding Trail, to a place we've only just returned from: Pokhara in Nepal.
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/22/w...
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/22/w...
December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We've added a new highly subjective guide to The Winding Trail, to a place we've only just returned from: Pokhara in Nepal.
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/22/w...
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/22/w...
Picking up Lotte to bring her home for Christmas… but not before a wander around Bremen University’s lovely lake… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
December 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Picking up Lotte to bring her home for Christmas… but not before a wander around Bremen University’s lovely lake… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Adventures in Psychojography… morning run out from the Uni in Bremen and across the motorway into the drained marshlands of Blockland and Hollerland, shrouded in mist with the geese calling across the fields… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
December 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Adventures in Psychojography… morning run out from the Uni in Bremen and across the motorway into the drained marshlands of Blockland and Hollerland, shrouded in mist with the geese calling across the fields… #adventuresbeyondthefrontdoor
Fourteen years since we said goodbye to Václav Havel, but I’m still reading him, still arguing with him, still learning from him…
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Fourteen years since we said goodbye to Václav Havel, but I’m still reading him, still arguing with him, still learning from him…
I’ve long found Chomsky problematic, which began for me with Bosnia… this piece explains it all very well...
ICYMI: No, Chomsky: The revelations about the linguist’s relationship with the predator Jeffrey Epstein are a fitting epitaph to a disgraceful career michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/no-chomsky
No, Chomsky
The revelations about the linguist’s relationship with the predator Jeffrey Epstein are a fitting epitaph to a disgraceful career.
michaeldeibert.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’ve long found Chomsky problematic, which began for me with Bosnia… this piece explains it all very well...
Some reading for a Sunday afternoon... our journey to the Kiso Valley in Japan, where we walked a section of the Nakasendō trail and sheltered from the rain among the five sacred trees of the Akasawa forest.
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/14/m...
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/14/m...
December 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some reading for a Sunday afternoon... our journey to the Kiso Valley in Japan, where we walked a section of the Nakasendō trail and sheltered from the rain among the five sacred trees of the Akasawa forest.
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/14/m...
the-winding-trail.com/2025/12/14/m...
We recently relaunched The Winding Trail, with essays, stories and photography from our travels in the outdoors. One of the long reads is about a journey through the Harz mountains, following in the footsteps of Heinrich Heine... 1/2
December 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We recently relaunched The Winding Trail, with essays, stories and photography from our travels in the outdoors. One of the long reads is about a journey through the Harz mountains, following in the footsteps of Heinrich Heine... 1/2
Two weddings in one day in Pokhara. Pretty special.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Two weddings in one day in Pokhara. Pretty special.
Another fine day visiting schools in Nepal. What the teachers, communities and indeed the kids themselves achieve despite everything is remarkable and humbling. So we have to try to have their back and make it even just a little bit easier…
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Another fine day visiting schools in Nepal. What the teachers, communities and indeed the kids themselves achieve despite everything is remarkable and humbling. So we have to try to have their back and make it even just a little bit easier…