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Growing walnuts is a long-term undertaking but the taste is a revelation.
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No issue is more divisive than that of human population. Anyone who ventures to discuss it in public risks abuse, or worse, from all sides. But, says Colin Tudge, no one should doubt that human numbers matter. We cannot afford simply to duck the issue. Sir David Attenborough tells us that the human population has…
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Continuing suggestions for a Natural History GCSE from a cook’s perspective.
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An Apologia by Colin Tudge Many thanks to everyone who commented on my blog of September 11 suggesting that we need a new political party – “The Renaissance Party”, aka the RP. By far the majority were favourable though there were objections of various kinds to which I would like very briefly to respond. Thus: …
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Although there are many thousands of political parties in the world already Colin Tudge argues that we need one more – to help bring about the cross-the-board transformation of ideas and actions that the world really needs Warning: I am very aware that I have said most of what follows before, many a time and…
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PART ONE: THE ABSOLUTE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL HISTORY In 2011 the wildlife campaigner and author Mary Colwell began to publicise the idea that we – Britain; society; the world – need a GCSE in Natural History. With help from the outgoing Green Party leader Caroline Lucas and Tim Oates of Cambridge Assessment she prepared a…
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Though the US is now directly involved in the conflicts of the Middle East the roots of the troubles lie deep in history, far pre-dating the US itself. Beyond doubt, though, the Far Right mindset and the neoliberal economy that America in general and Donald Trump in particular have brought to bear on the world’s…
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If you were hosting foreign visitors, where would you take them to experience a “Taste of Britain”?