The Holocaust We Will Not See
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget
Archive for the 'culture' Category
Consumer Hell
How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives?
Death Denial
Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?
Politically Transmitted Disease
Rising rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the United States are the result of programmes intended to stamp them out.
Help Addicts, But Lock Up the Casual Users of Cocaine
The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive
The Propaganda of the Victor
How the poor were airbrushed from history
Someone Else’s England
Someone Else’s England
You don’t have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament.
The Open Veins of Wales
Dr Beeching helped turn the country I’ve come to love into an outpost of empire. Now his legacy can be reversed.
Hypocrites Unite!
At least we have some ideals to fall short of.
The Cult of the Heroic Animal
The Disneyfication of war allows us to ignore its real savagery
Lady Tonge – an Apology
I was wrong. She is not a bully, a fool or a stooge. She is a comedian.
A Bully in Ermine
Lady Tonge is using her unelected position to persecute some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
The New Chauvinism
Why should I love this country?
God of the Soil
Only when nomads settled on fertile land did the notion of progress take root
Mocking Our Dreams
Climate change exposes progress as a myth
Bring Them Back
We should welcome the return of the big wild mammals
Class War on the Hoof
If we want a classless society, banning hunting might be a step towards it.
Just Fade Away
It’s time to lighten up about falling birthrates.
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Born Yesterday
Review of The Day After Tomorrow
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Mighty Mouse
Disney’s infantilisation of our culture masks a hard, hegemonic will
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Natural Aesthetes
Wildlife is wonderful. We don’t need any other excuse to protect it.
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Acceptable Hatred
Beneath the enduring hostility to Gypsies lies an ancient envy of the nomadic life
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Driven Out of Eden
Our quest for Paradise always appears to result in eviction or genocide
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Both Saviour and Victim
The film Black Hawk Down is helping to create a new myth of American nationhood, which threatens everyone on earth
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A New Mobilisation
The atomisation of society means that we must invent novel forms of political organisation
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No Blood Please, We’re British
Older mothers have been judged an offence against Nature
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Reality Re-Asserts Itself
The floods are a reminder of our inability to conquer Nature
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Stolen Identities
There’s a chance of stopping the massive fraud depriving Australia’s Aborigines of their royalties, but will it work?
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The Living Dead
Our failure to prepare for death makes it more frightening
Stirring up Hatred in the Countryside
The rich and powerful have started a new class war
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We’re Not Materialistic Enough
It’s time to go back to the land
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The Human Zoo
Tourists are becoming involved in slavery
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Breeding Reptiles in the Mind
Tourism that trades in mythology makes the world a crueller place
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People With Eyes
Why the Maasai came to believe that tourists have the evil eye.
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Acceptable Cruelty
Why is it still acceptable to send young children to boarding school?
A Beautiful Fraud
Cider with Rosie celebrates a past that never existed
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Britain’s Ethnic Cleansing
Gypsy culture is being systematically eliminated through a forced assimilation programme
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Grubbing Out the Past
Britain’s archaeology is being obliterated - often with the help of archaeologists - yet hardly anyone seems to care
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Whose Nation, Whose Trust?
The National Trust must lose its attachment to aristocratic values
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The Collapsing Tower of Babel
Language barriers are good, not bad, and their loss is a disaster for hundreds of millions of people
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Britain’s Cultural Cleansing
Our treatment of gypsies and travellers reveals Little England at its worst: mean-spirited, vindictive and narrow-minded.
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We Aren’t Robots
The extraordinary work of the neurobiologist Antonio Damasio shows that wisdom is inextricable from emotion
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Subversive Genius
Roads protesters are bringing art and necessity back together, sowing the seeds of cultural renewal
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The Astromancer
Did Ledumen, the celebrated Samburu prophet, know I was coming to visit him three months before I decided to do so?
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Wishful Thinking
Environmentalism is yet to inspire a great novel
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The Smith and the Devil
Why are the same myths associated with blacksmiths all over the world?
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