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Suzanne proposes the UK Food Culture as a topic for the Renaissance Movement and invites examples worth saving.
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COLIN TUDGE PROPOSES A NEW, PEOPLE-LED INITIATIVE TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM TERMINAL DECLINE On every front there is disaster: ecological, social, political, economic, moral, spiritual; and, unsurprisingly, a pervading mood of pessimism and indeed of despair. Yet if only we – humanity – worked together, and did conceptually simple things well, we might still…
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Renaissance is about hearts and minds – a change of worldview, a shift in the Zeitgeist. But how might this translate into the political and practical transformation that the world so urgently needs? America’s and Israel’s war in Iran is of course unspeakably horrible as all wars are and for good measure, because of where…
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THE THINGS WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT AND DO TO PUT THE WORLD BACK ON AN EVEN KEEL To bring about the Renaissance that is so urgently required we need: To rethink everything we do and take for granted from first principles; to rethink everything in the light of everything else; and to re-structure where…
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As I argued in my blog on human population on November 10: “… because the issues are so emotive, the subject has become taboo: verboten… Those who write about population are likely to be “cancelled”, or as the Amish say, “shunned”, only worse” In particular: “… anyone who suggests that we should consciously set out to reduce numbers…
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Slow Cooking is the method called for in the deep mid-winter. There are more benefits, and applications than you might imagine.
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The derek cooper award This month, out of the blue and marvellously, Ruth and I became the proud recipients of one of the BBC Food Programme’s Food and Farming Awards; to wit, “the Derek Cooper Award for Outstanding Achievement”. It is a great honour and a great fillip. Derek was a fine writer and a…