Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping – and the nightmare of 1984
Colin Tudge suggests that the world is now more or less precisely in the state that George Orwell described 80 years ago in one of the greatest of all dystopian works of literature George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948 when memories of World War II and Hitler were still fresh – indeed the full extent … Read more
Of HS2 and GMOs
Not harbingers of progress, says Colin Tudge, but symptoms of folly. Why do we continue to make the same mistakes? Rishi Sunak has been desperately trying to explain to a bewildered nation and his own party and perhaps to himself why HS2 was a brilliant initiative when the government of which he was a part … Read more
The absolute importance of the grassroots
A meeting in Bristol next month – “Planet Local Summit” – will discuss the kind of initiatives that are needed if ever we’re to put the world to rights As the world burns and floods and the world’s most powerful people continue to offer more of the same — or else are in denial or … Read more