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If this is what the apocalypse looks like, we can all relax. The end of civilisation will be very green and smell of coconut and willow warblers will call.
I was walking across Greenham Common. For much of the 20th century, it was an important RAF base. Famously, in the 1980s, its nuclear weapons were opposed by a long-running women’s protest camp. Old photographs show a bleak scene: a