The Turn in the Road

Let’s try this, as an opening claim: to be homeward bound is to have turned aside, to have left the big path, the one big path that was meant to lead to the future; no longer to be in service to its promises, and to ask what else is worth doing with the time we may have left.

In print & on tour

This winter sees the publication of At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Emergencies by our co-founder, Dougald Hine.

The book is available for preorder now and Dougald will be on tour in the UK and Germany in February 2023.

The Great Humbling S4E7: ‘The Missing Episode’
by Ed Gillespie & Dougald Hine
November 25, 2022
So, here’s what happened – after a long break, we sat down in early October to record the seventh episode of this series, but life got in the way andContinue reading “The Great Humbling S4E7: ‘The Missing Episode’”
The Great Humbling S4E6: ‘Nice to meet you’
by Ed Gillespie & Dougald Hine
July 26, 2022
After twenty-nine episodes recorded through screens and cameras, Ed and Dougald find themselves meeting for the first time and sit down for a conversation beside the mill pond in Loddon,Continue reading “The Great Humbling S4E6: ‘Nice to meet you’”
The Great Humbling S4E5: ‘Belief’
by Dougald Hine
June 1, 2022
Dougald poses a big question for this episode: what do we believe in? Ed responds playfully and paradoxically with ‘self-delusion’, citing Robert Trivers work on self-deceit that includes gay pornographyContinue reading “The Great Humbling S4E5: ‘Belief’”

Traps, Cages & Spells

A series of letters from conservation biologist Nicholas Wilkinson.

The Turn in the Road

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Traps, Cages & Spells