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ENLIGHTENED COOKERY 2: Changes of mind and paradigm shifts: an impressionistic account of how nutritional theory has changed since the mid-20th century
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1 comment on ENLIGHTENED COOKERY 2: Changes of mind and paradigm shifts: an impressionistic account of how nutritional theory has changed since the mid-20th centuryWhen I was first introduced formally to biology in the 1950s it was widely felt at least among people at large and also by a great many scientists that science could and should be a search for irrefutable and even absolute truth. It was further widely supposed that cast-iron truth could and must be arrived…
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Bread for the jackdaws – or not?
A very small matter with very big implications By Colin Tudge Every morning for the past 10 years or so I’ve been scattering crusts and spaghetti and other beaksome leftovers for the birds that come to the communal garden around our flat. Jackdaws and, less commonly, Magpies, are the chief clientele, plus the odd Robin…
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The Makerfield by-election and the future of life on earth
Colin Tudge argues that the upcoming by-election in Makerfield has implications that resonate far beyond the confines of a Manchester suburb The by-election to be held in Makerfield, Manchester, on June 18 is a blip in the history of politics – but is much more significant than it may seem. If Andy Burnham wins for…
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A tribute to Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food
Carlo Petrini, who has just died at the age of 76, pioneered the global real food movement – one founded on food culture. Here Suzanne Wynn who helped introduce Slow Food to the UK remembers him and reflects on his legacy
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Two party politics is over. Now we need the Renaissance
by colin tudge Many were cheered by the election results in Britain on May 7 – a breath of fresh air! Hooray! But I found them seriously depressing. It is sad to see the end of Labour, possibly forever. The Tories, too, in their day, had touches of greatness. The rise and rise of the…
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Why Britain must re-unite with Europe with all possible speed
by colin tudge Britain has been sadly diminished these past few decades by a series of government follies. They include Eden’s hare-brained attempt in 1956 to reclaim control of Suez; Thatcher’s introduction of neoliberal economics in the 1980s; Blair’s gung-ho plunge into George W Bush’s disastrous war in Iraq in 2003; Osborne’s policy of austerity…
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President Macron of France has told Donald Trump to be serious. But is any politician really serious! Is politics serious?
By Colin Tudge Though many people in high places are in denial, no sensible – “ordinary” – person needs telling that the world is in deep trouble: deeper than ever before. There is disaster on every front: political, economic, social, ecological, climatic – and although many good things are happening the economic ideas and policies…
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The Renaissance Movement: Part 1 WHAT IS AND WHAT COULD BE
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…