Original essays
Although animal agriculture is a major contributor to the degradation of Washington State’s Puget Sound ecosystem. While the proposed solutions address dealing with its consequences, there has been no attempt to tackle the problem at source by reducing the number of cows. Continue reading Surf or Turf?
This is a guest post by my grandfather, Richard Lovie, written in the days following the Armistice on November 11th, 1918. Looking through some old photographs, I found his notebook from those days. He was serving in France at the … Continue reading Armistice Day, 1918
Just before 9/11 I had fallen from my bike and had stitches in my lip. To my embarrassment, everyone I passed running assumed I was a survivor and nodded gravely. Continue reading 9/11
So why now did I want to become a US Citizen? Perhaps because in Donald Trump’s America my definition of freedom of speech or right of assembly might at some point intersect with the Administration’s definition of felony, for which I could be deported to Boris Johnson’s Brexit Britain, where my UK passport would no longer give me right of abode in continental Europe. Continue reading Ferry to America