Wade Graham

Mar 31, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Wade Graham

Thrust into the global warming era, there’s much handwringing about how to build, and increasingly rebuild our cities to help us weather the worsening weather. Many discussions centre on digging in against an angry Nature, such as building defences against flooding and rising sea levels, like Venice’s MOSE barrier, designed to block the sea from swamping its fragile lagoon.

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Patricia Campbell |Mic Wright |Wade Graham

I brew my morning coffee and sit down with a tattered blue notebook. The binding is broken, resewn and taped, the yellowed pages stuffed with loose sheets and newspaper clippings. On the cover, Recipe Index is inscribed in gold, and inside the marbled endpapers: Walker’s Private Recipe Book No 3. A handy book for the housewife. 1940. Here lies treasure.

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Rebecca Gibb |Wade Graham

Champagne toasts life celebrations and rites of passage and, as you celebrate Christmas and the arrival of another year, it’s unlikely that violent uprisings in the vineyards will come to mind. But a century ago, thousands of grape growers took to the streets of Épernay, confronting a sabre-wielding French cavalry. Champagne houses were burned to the ground and wine flowed down glass-strewn roads.

Dec 4, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Wade Graham |Sanjana Modha

One of my favourite seaside pleasures is tucking into a plate of fried calamari – salty, crunchy on the outside, soft and creamy on the inside. My pleasure is magnified by the thought that it’s fresh, caught in local waters. At night, at certain times of the year I sometimes see the squid boats fishing just offshore, their bright lure lights glowing like Japanese festival lanterns in the darkness, reflecting off the glassy water. But most of the time I’ve probably been wrong.

Oct 30, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Wade Graham |Rowan Pelling

“They can’t electrify everything,” said the trucker, shaking his head. I was sitting with a group of friends who gather on Friday afternoons at an auto dismantling yard owned by one of them on the industrial east side of Los Angeles. Just across the street, a freight train loaded with double-stacked shipping containers slid slowly past. I’ll call the speaker Frank. He is a short-haul trucker, an “owner-operator” or independent lorry driver, and a foot soldier in the trenches of the global economy.