Compassionate World

It’s a sobering thought. Climate change isn’t so much creeping up anymore as coming at us in leaps and bounds. Europe is now the fastest warming continent in the world.

Of all the Royal spectacles I’ve seen, this was my least expected: King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands with his hands plunged in maggots.

Last Saturday (15th March), it was a great honour to welcome Dr Amir Khan to the stage of the magnificent Sheldonian Theatre to deliver our 2024 Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Oxford Literary Festival.

Deep among forest-clad slopes of Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains, a young David Attenborough was creating one of the most iconic moments in wildlife history.

On a boat 15 miles off the coast of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico was blisteringly hot. All around were oil rigs. Some were huge tangles of scaffolding and metal beams; others resembled small cities.

Old MacDonald has a lot to answer for. Many generations have started out listening to that tale of a farmer and his various animals in perhaps the world’s most recognisable nursery rhyme. That early childhood imagery has been one that

Have you ever experienced the love of an animal?  Felt that extraordinary connection between two species that needs no words? 

Emergency approval for a bee-harming pesticide by the UK Government has once again sent shock waves through the countryside

So, how are your New Year’s resolutions going? For many of us, resolutions revolve around doing more exercise, saving money, or eating better.