Nick MacKinnon

Nick MacKinnon

Nick MacKinnon writes and edits Walshaw Turbines, a fortnightly blog published by Mark Avery, in which friends walk to one of the 65 turbine sites of the proposed Calderdale Wind Farm and write about it. The series is now halfway through at 33 turbines, 90 maps, 500 photographs and 140,000 words. It has already led to the withdrawal of the original application and the hasty jet washing of the Calderdale Wind Farm website.

Nick teaches maths and English: his puzzles and problems appear in The Sunday Times and American Mathematical Monthly and his poem 'The Metric System' won the 2014 Forward Prize. In 1992, while in plaster after a rock climbing accident, he founded the Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave, whose victory kept Cabin Pressure and the Archers on 1500 metres and led the BBC to launch Radio 5 Live instead.