Category: culture

The Cult of the Heroic Animal

The Disneyfication of war allows us to ignore its real savagery

I was wrong. She is not a bully, a fool or a stooge. She is a comedian.

Lady Tonge is using her unelected position to persecute some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Why should I love this country?

Only when nomads settled on fertile land did the notion of progress take root

Climate change exposes progress as a myth

We should welcome the return of the big wild mammals

If we want a classless society, banning hunting might be a step towards it.

It’s time to lighten up about falling birthrates.

Review of The Day After Tomorrow

Disney’s infantilisation of our culture masks a hard, hegemonic will

Wildlife is wonderful. We don’t need any other excuse to protect it.

Beneath the enduring hostility to Gypsies lies an ancient envy of the nomadic life

Our quest for Paradise always appears to result in eviction or genocide

The film Black Hawk Down is helping to create a new myth of American nationhood, which threatens everyone on earth

The atomisation of society means that we must invent novel forms of political organisation

Older mothers have been judged an offence against Nature

The floods are a reminder of our inability to conquer Nature

There’s a chance of stopping the massive fraud depriving Australia’s Aborigines of their royalties, but will it work?

Our failure to prepare for death makes it more frightening