The rich and powerful have started a new class war
Category: culture
We’re Not Materialistic Enough
It’s time to go back to the land
The Human Zoo
Tourists are becoming involved in slavery
Breeding Reptiles in the Mind
Tourism that trades in mythology makes the world a crueller place
People With Eyes
Why the Maasai came to believe that tourists have the evil eye.
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
Britain’s Ethnic Cleansing
Gypsy culture is being systematically eliminated through a forced assimilation programme
Grubbing Out the Past
Britain’s archaeology is being obliterated – often with the help of archaeologists – yet hardly anyone seems to care
We Aren’t Robots
The extraordinary work of the neurobiologist Antonio Damasio shows that wisdom is inextricable from emotion
Whose Nation, Whose Trust?
The National Trust must lose its attachment to aristocratic values
The Collapsing Tower of Babel
Language barriers are good, not bad, and their loss is a disaster for hundreds of millions of people
Britain’s Cultural Cleansing
Our treatment of gypsies and travellers reveals Little England at its worst: mean-spirited, vindictive and narrow-minded.
Subversive Genius
Roads protesters are bringing art and necessity back together, sowing the seeds of cultural renewal
The Astromancer
Did Ledumen, the celebrated Samburu prophet, know I was coming to visit him three months before I decided to do so?
Wishful Thinking
Environmentalism is yet to inspire a great novel
The Smith and the Devil
Why are the same myths associated with blacksmiths all over the world?