Poems that celebrate the insect world that is facing extinction

Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at Liverpool University. She ...

A CUT above the rest…

My friendship with her is deep.

She's a feminist and the most expressive among most whom I know.

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How do we fight climate change caused by agriculture?

Microsoft founder Bill Gates writes in his blog gatesnotes about the need for each and every sector in the economy to match the global...

Netting to stop bird nesting is nasty and against nature

Bird netting or anti-bird netting is a form of bird pest control. It is a net used to prevent birds from rea...

Spy in Love

Lauren Wilkinson’s American Spy is a perceptive novel with a feisty protagonist - it will possibly be made into a film...

Nike’s ‘Dream Crazier’ ad celebrates women in sports

Serena Williams featuring in “Dream Crazier”, an ad celebrating women in sports got some high recognition and praise on social medi...

In the Eye of a Storm

Three Pines is the magical village Canadian writer Louis Penny has created as a setting for her novels featuring the cop Armand Gamache. Her be...

Home and Heart

Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, the thought that passes through the mind is: there but for the grace of...

Director Susanne Bier: “Female Directors will show a more complex view of Humanity”

Hollywood is now a leading genre for bigger and better roles for women, black and all other minority actors. Yet, the most famous female direct...