Category: culture

Human Kind

Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.

How I caught a glimpse, through the unlikely medium of roadkill, of what lies beneath.

The cruelties of factory farming shelter behind a fairytale image, promoted by advertisers and children’s authors.

The destruction of cultural treasures by ISIS has parallels in ecological cleansing around the world.

Consumerism has broken its promise. Perhaps now we can begin to reconnect.

Why, in this age of freedom, are we so confined? And what can we do to reclaim our lives?

How my friend’s grandfather went rogue – my second winter’s tale for the festive season.

We are pre-tuned to the natural world; wired to respond to nature.

The mythical tiger pursued by helicopters and armed gendarmes speaks volumes about what is missing from our lives.

Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism

How our governments now talk about human beings.

Competition and individualism are forcing us into a devastating Age of Loneliness

And the case for reintroducing big cats. A weird and wonderful tale.

Do you feel left out? Perhaps it’s because you refuse to succumb to the competition, envy and fear neoliberalism breeds

We cannot reach people by terrifying them; there has to be a positive agenda.

How to ensure that nations slide ever further into selfishness, and ever further to the right.

New research suggests there was no state of grace: for two million years humankind has been the natural world’s nemesis.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chainstores.

A shocking new bill threatens to make this country feel like a giant shopping mall.

Materialism promises satisfaction. It delivers despair.