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  • The bedrock principles of morality

    Colin Tudge

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    I have been taken to task for suggesting that we should live our lives and frame the economy according to the “Bedrock Principles of Ecology and Morality” It’s not the first bit the critics object to. Ecology after all is a science, or at least a collation of sciences. The task of science is to…

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  • How might we live in the future?  And what do we really need to do to enable us to live as well as possible? 

    Ruth

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    Chris Jones suggests that the high technologies we are developing now with such vigour and at such expense, are leading us into a future that is not realistic. So what do we need instead? We have become used to lives of increasing complexity, with a steady increase in the availability of ever smarter, labour-saving, pleasure-giving…

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  • Not much scope for optimism – but never lose hope!

    Colin Tudge

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    A fellow journalist, Barrie Lees, has written in pessimistic vein to tell me that my plans for A 21st Century Renaissance (April 2 2025) are unrealistic, or indeed forlorn (see comment number 7). Here’s my response:  Dear Barrie,  I’m not saying the Renaissance will in any sense be easy. I am merely saying it is…

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  • A 21st Century Renaissance

    Colin Tudge

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    Proposal for a new Course to help lay the foundations of a People-led Global Renaissance My grand ambition is to provide an outline of a Life Strategy – actions, ideas, and attitudes – that would, if acted upon, enable human beings and our fellow creatures to live agreeably on this planet for aeons to come.…

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  • Spring Eating

    Suzanne Wynn

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    Keeping abreast of what food is in season, i.e. at its best, has become more confusing now that you can buy most things all year round. Spring is an exciting time to get back in touch.

  • Dare to dream

    Colin Tudge

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    Modern technologies seem to be enabling us to do almost anything we want. Our main task now, is to decide what it is we do want to do, and why  We have reached a point in human evolution where we seem able to achieve almost anything we can imagine. Advances in genetic science enable us…

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  • Fresh Inspiration

    Suzanne Wynn

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    When faced with the same old ingredients we need to get inventive. Its time to learn something new.

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  • Is atheism just a fancy name for bigotry?

    Colin Tudge

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    Atheists commonly claim to be “rationalist” – and so they tend to be. But, says Colin Tudge, they have misunderstood the nature and the limits of rationalism A good friend of mine in an exchange of emails referred to himself self-deprecatingly as a “cranky old irreconcilable atheist”. For my part, I’m not a fully paid-up…

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  • Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping – and the nightmare of 1984

    Colin Tudge

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    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…

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  • Why don’t Starmer and Reeves try Socialism?

    Colin Tudge

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    The labour party as it stands means Tory with a more benign exterior – and it has rapidly become deeply unpopular. colin tudge suggests that it would serve the country and the world far better – and attract far more support – if it returned to its socialist, moral roots The word “Socialism” seems to…

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