NEWS AND COMMENT: There has been a spate of news media stories about untreated sewage being discharged into the sea against the responsibilities of the privately owned water companies whose job it is to ensure that wastewater does not pollute the environment. This sort of …
The video is cute. They look like mini humans hugging and on one occasion passionately kissing each other. It is hard to ignore the conclusion that the origins of the human hug and kiss as a greeting behaviour is here in our ancestral cousins, the …
Fresh-faced William MacAskill occupies page 3 of The Times newspaper today, Saturday, October 8, 2022. And I’m pleased. He is an associate Prof at Oxford and the founder of the effective altruism (EA) movement. He became the youngest associate Prof of philosophy in the world …
The best way to motivate people to change their ways to protect wildlife and to reduce the suffering of livestock in factory farming is through the mechanism of capitalism and convenience. Capitalism is destroying the planet, but it can with technology save it too. Nathan …
Huiran is a 21-year-old shepherdess from Xinjiang, China, which happens to be the home of the Uighur people who are mostly Muslims and whose religion, language and way of life is being suppressed by Beijing. In fact, the UN say that there have been genocidal …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the name of a disease should avoid “causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups, and minimise any negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare”. It is the last item which …
I have just written a post about Tsai Ing-Wen, the first female president of Taiwan who is a devoted animal and cat lover (ailurophile) – click to read the article. She was democratically elected. She likes to post images of her cats: ‘Think Think’ and …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Kim Jong-un is known for his cruel ruthlessness and in my view, he is deliberately and consciously brutally cruel to anybody who challenges him in order to maintain his dictatorship without even the faintest whiff of dissent. And he is prepared to …
I know I am discussing an entirely different culture to the one that I am familiar with, which is probably why this video is disgusting to me. Do you agree with me? This sweet-looking, petit, young woman in a schoolgirl’s skirt with a schoolgirl voice …
