Protesting farmers are having to fight off the radical right, conspiracy theorists and climate sceptics: Thousands of farmers travelled to London on November 19 to protest the new government’s first budget and its imposition of new inheritance tax rules. Nearly a month later, on December 12, there was another protest, this time with more tractors, …
I bonded with COVID vaccine sceptics over saunas and Mother Earth rituals – this is what they taught me: I was standing in a forest at night, by a dark lake taking part in a Mother Earth ritual. Shaman drums echoed between the cliffs. The witch leading the ritual suddenly encouraged us to sound like …
How the women’s Euros 2022 beat the sceptics to breath new life into football: Along with 27,444 other people, I was in Milton Keynes for the Women’s European Championship semi-final between Germany and France on Wednesday night. It was a high-quality, hard-fought contest, the Germans eventually toughing it out over the more skilful French, winning …
Should we tell stories of vaccine sceptics who have died of COVID?: As vaccine uptake starts to wane, stories have began to emerge of people who refused the jab ending up in intensive care, ruing not having had the vaccine, and subsequently dying. These cautionary tales are certainly attention-grabbing, but is it right to publish …
COVID-19: four ways to respond to vaccine sceptics – and maybe even convince them: There are productive ways to talk to people you disagree with. CREATISTA For most of the 20th century, more than 60,000 people died in the US from polio, diphtheria and small pox each year. In 2016, the American death toll from …