As a vegetarian, the new PETA campaign makes me want to force a mole through a shredder
No animals were harmed in the making of any of these metaphors.
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Don’t accept the commonplace: there’s a whole world of vibrant colour beyond the classic red berry
The almost universality of red berries makes those plants with berries of other colours especially valuable and appealing.
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Does David Attenborough’s Dynasties dumb down animal politics?
Animal stories are at their best when they reveal our shared emotional experience, but they must also touch on the…
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Watching the mudskipper, with its periscope eyes, is like looking back to when life first emerged from the water
These strangely beguiling amphibious fish are fascinating for reasons that are hard to spell out.
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I was in a bad mood until I watched a man do a falsetto voice to impersonate a Neanderthal
One miserable writer’s desperate search for joy.
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Now Scotland is outraged about a trophy hunter shooting goats, let’s talk about grouse
Up to a fifth of Scotland is managed for grouse shooting, an equally perverse form of trophy hunting with far…
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Winter is coming, and stubborn little field mice are beginning to take up residence in my house, as if it were a pied-à-terre in Benidorm
Every year, at around this time, a few of my closest neighbours come to my house and take up residence. A…
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The best veg boxes: from wonky carrots to local organics
Seasonal, local and pesticide free: how the NS office was converted to fruit and vegetables.
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