The Cult of the Heroic Animal
The Disneyfication of war allows us to ignore its real savagery
Archive for the 'culture' Category
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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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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