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  • 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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  • Maximum Variety – Addendum

    Eating seasonally provides all the variety we need in our diet, we just need to widen our horizons and avoid getting stuck in a rut.

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  • The battle for Darwin’s soul

    Darwin was much influenced first by the gloomy T R Malthus and then championed by the pugnacious T H Huxley. Colin Tudge suggests that if only Darwin had known the Russian naturalist and activist Peter Kropotkin the world might now be a very different place Two of the most influential books published in the 19th…

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  • Onward the Greens! 

    Colin Tudge predicts big political re-alliances over the next few years – with a growing army of Greens  All political parties are coalitions. As someone once remarked re the Church of England, no two people sharing a pew think exactly the same, and this is abundantly true too of politicians sharing a bench. But some…

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  • A new bottom line

    — and a glimmer of hope. By Colin Tudge Keir Starmer promises change – but the change he is promising is of a very limited kind. Whatever form it takes it will be within the present “neoliberal” economic paradigm: an all-against-all competition with the world at large to increase material wealth, known as “growth”. Within…

  • Relaxed Summer Entertaining: Anyone for a Picky Tea?

    A Picky Tea is, apparently, the latest fashion for relaxed summer entertaining. How you feel about this might show your age!

  • Life is a master class in cooperativeness

    Competition, beyond doubt, is a fact of life. But, says Colin Tudge, the essence of life is cooperation  It almost goes without saying that individuals gain from living in societies, and that all creatures depend to a greater or lesser extent on others of their own kind. Children need their parents. Vultures scavenge more effectively…

  • The biology of compassion: work in progress

    Colin Tudge introduces a new series of blogs on whether and to what extent the insights of modern biology can throw light on matters of morality, and hence on politics and economics  In a nutshell, I want to argue that humanity has been led astray these past few thousand years, and particularly over the last…

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