Colin Tudge
Articles by colin tudge
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World Affairs
What matters more than anything else is agriculture
- 11 July 2005
The right support for traditional farming could help Africa more effectively than any amount of "development". It alone can maintain landscapes and provide jobs for billions who need them
Society
Back to great grandma's cooking
- 22 November 2004
The answer to obesity is the same as the answer to hunger: traditional food, locally grown
Books
Back in print - The good fight
- 16 August 2004
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey Penguin Modern Classics, 421pp, £7.99
ISBN 014118762X
Ideas
NS Essay - The honesty of science is being compromised at every turn
- 26 April 2004
Can we still rely on what scientists tell us? Alas, no. Their conferences and papers are sponsored by industry, their bad results are concealed, their jobs are threatened if they step out of line. Colin Tudge on the corruption of humanity's most precious discipline
Politics
When men have lost their reason
- 12 April 2004
Is the war on terrorism working? A scientific analysis suggests that it is not and that it has succeeded only in keeping us scared and compliant
Ideas
NS Essay - 'There will never be any other industry that can employ as many people as farming'
- 22 March 2004
By 2050, six billion people will live in cities - as many as now live on the whole earth. At least a billion of them will live in slums. Cities aren't coping and we should accept that the future is mainly agrarian
World Affairs
Profits won't feed the world
- 10 November 2003
We will all have enough to eat if we stick to the good, old-fashioned craft of farming. We don't need advanced science, still less the big corporations, argues Colin Tudge
Ideas
Why nasty guys rule and nice guys let them
- 11 August 2003
Even democracies are invariably led by the hawks in society. But we have evolved to help each other and work co-operatively, so doves will triumph in the end
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Capitalism itself is a false target; the evil is the form we have now, which Jefferson, Madison and Keynes all warned against'
- 21 April 2003
Even Gordon Brown and Clare Short want corporations to get stuck in to poor countries and make them more "efficient". They are misguided, argues Colin Tudge
Ideas
Lunatic ideas. Colin Tudge on a key study for "anyone who wishes to understand the modern world"
- 07 October 2002
The Lunar Men: the friends who made the future (1730-1810)
Jenny Uglow Faber and Faber, 588pp, £25
ISBN 0571196470
