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A list of all the articles published on this site

  • The fork in the road

    We could still aspire to the Sunlit Uplands, says Colin Tudge – but the world’s leaders are taking us and our fellow creatures in the opposite direction. The “People-led Renaissance” is necessary and urgent  Truly, humanity has reached a fork in the road; and, influential creatures that we are, whichever way we go we will…

  • The Home Orchard

    A People’s Takeover might sound very revolutionary but growing your own orchard fruit is an easy step to take.

  • The real cost of junk food: why we need to re-think food strategy from first principles

    A new report from economist Tim Jackson at the University of Surrey tells us that our “addiction” to junk food is costing Britain £268 billion per year —  which far exceeds the total budget of the NHS. Professor Jackson calls for “bold, ambitious leadership aligned across government” to provide a more propitious “legal, fiscal and…

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  • Donald Trump, Elon Musk, God, and the American Declaration of Independence

    Colin Tudge questions the wisdom of one of America’s seminal texts How can we explain the rise and now the resurrection of Donald Trump – who didn’t simply seize power in some coup as so many autocrats have, but was actually chosen by the people in an apparently unrigged election?  The commonest explanation is that…

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  • Is dining in set to become the new dining out?

    Financial pressures are leading more of our “out of home” food spend to be diverted to ingredients that can be cooked at home. This has to be a good step.

  • Agriculture is by far the most important thing that human beings do – the thing we absolutely have to get right. So why won’t the powers-that-be take it seriously? By Colin Tudge

    Small farms and farmers are disappearing at an alarming rate – and yet they are vital. Colin Tudge suggests that a prime task for humanity (among a host of others) is to re-establish agriculture as the focus of all our endeavours and to raise the status of farmers   The only people who are truly treasured…

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  • Harvest Reflection

    We can help farmers by shopping wisely. But how difficult is that to do?

  • Appetisers

    Adding an appetiser course would be a great improvement to our British “meat and two veg” meal format.

  • How might the world be different

    In three recent blogs – The Biology of Compassion; Life is a Master-class in Cooperativeness; and The Battle for Darwin’s Soul – I have argued that a capacity for Compassion (kindness; love) is deeply embedded in our psyche. We should have far more faith in ourselves, and in “human nature” in general.  Here and in…

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  • Technology – and especially farming – for a kinder world

    If we really care about humanity, and our fellow creatures, and the future, then all our technologies, like everything else, must be rooted in the “bedrock principles” of Morality and Ecology. Colin Tudge asks what this might imply in practice There’s a very wide spectrum of technologies, from the humblest of crafts to “high-tech”.  Crafts…

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