Agriculture
Montana: Home From Home on the Range
‘I look around the dimly-lit bar and notice how the hard-drinking clientele watches suspicious newcomers like me, with my British-tainted accent and far too many questions. I ask another one: “Do the Hell’s Angels come here, Brian?” Bingo.’
The Anti-Green Ecologist
The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock
He Knew He Was Right by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
Birds of a Feather
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah A. Stein
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?