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Colin Tudge’s Great Re‑Think

This website is intended to identify and develop the ideas needed to rescue humanity and our fellow creatures from what is now the brink of total disaster — for if only we did conceptually simple things well then we and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: the next million years for starters.

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Recent articles from the Blog

The madness of King Donald

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Colin Tudge

Though the US is now directly involved in the conflicts of the Middle East the roots of the troubles lie deep in history, far pre-dating the US itself. Beyond doubt, though, the Far Right mindset and the neoliberal economy that America in general and Donald Trump in particular have brought to bear on the world’s … Read more

The Changing Food Scene in Britain

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Suzanne Wynn

If you were hosting foreign visitors, where would you take them to experience a “Taste of Britain”?

Blackshirts under the organic bed

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Colin Tudge

A new 30-page booklet called Organicism and Fascism in the UK claims that the organic movement, including the Soil Association and the Biodynamic Association and also, by association, the Oxford Real Farming Conference, is tainted by its Far Right and racist origins which it fails to face up to. In truth, says Colin Tudge, the … Read more

Food with a Sense of Place

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Suzanne Wynn

How mass production deprives us of food that has a real sense of place and how we can fight back.

The Big Idea

The Big Idea is divided into the following chapters: 

The pic — of me (CT) among some of John Letts’ Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire — encapsulates some of the prime themes of The Great Re-Think. For John raises genetically diverse cereals on soils of low fertility year-on-year: no fertilizer, no pesticide, no herbicide, no digging, no fallow, and all wonderfully wildlife-friendly: key principles of agroecology applied to arable. All this is the complete opposite of the modern, industrial trend — monocultures of uniform crops chemicalized to the hilt. To rescue the world at this late hour we need to apply such radical thinking to all aspects of life.

Colin Tudge among some of John Letts’s Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire

Recent comments

  1. In his splendid “Kissing English Arses Talking Blues” Eric Bogle says at one point, “Mind You, I don’t usually have…

  4. ” Just read your brilliantly argued critique of Organicism and Fascism pamphlet. Astonishing to hear of this. I am concerned…

  5. Good morning Colin, Thanks so much for sending this through. We have also had many concerns about the approach that…