Category: culture

A Small and Shuffling Life

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.

The Lake District’s bid for World Heritage status shows just what a mess conservation is in.

Promoting extractive industries is seen by politicians as a proper, manly pursuit, even if it makes no sense.

The ignorance and philistinism of those who attack nature lovers knows no bounds.

Are repeated sightings of non-existent big cats evidence of a yearning for a wilder life?

When scholars sell out, the consequences are grave.