• Hammocks, dawn raids and court dates: the fight to save a London tree

    Protesters trying to save a tree in Stroud Green that the council wants to axe say it’s a battle that should concern us allOn a warm midsummer evening in 2022, I stood under a plane tree on the corner of a north London red-brick street and chatted with Marcus Decker, who was then preparing for his 50th night sleeping in a hammock high among the tree’s branches. The pair of them, he said, tree and Marcus, were becoming old friends – as well as allies in a struggle.The tree, on t

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