Pathways To Inclusion

“Man can and should make himself master over nature by his knowledge of the subject” (F. Mitterrand) Trigger Warning: Contains graphic depictions of animal cruelty and Michael Gove Last Spring I started noticing this bird sitting on a tree outside our bedroom window. At about 8am it would sing, patiently, to this other, similar looking bird perched on an antennae on the roof of the house opposite. Every morning for about a month it did this. This might happen every year, I don't know. The roads were a lot quieter than usual, and I had a bit more time around the house to notice. And then they went somewhere else. Maybe they got freaked out by the saucepan banging, who knows. But one day I realised they weren't there any more. And all that was left echoing down our empty street was a fading, imperfect memory of their song, and my lingering regret that I never found out what they were called. Anatomy of a songbird Dominion 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1995, François Mitterrand