Excellent article. I can’t stand the conversation usually, mostly because I’m bitter that they’ve never let me write for them because I don’t have an institution (I’m a freelance academic). But this taught me much and with long interest in East Africa this is v informative.

Don’t they want to get out? We are always being told that it’s slavery. Why would they not look to go home?

Come on Guardian! Fewer toys and more getting kids to climb trees and swim in rivers and learn to steward the land!

How do I add my signature to the list of objectors?

Halloween is a wonderful holiday for kids and dogs if it includes walks and good food and ghost stories and games but not when it contains fires and fireworks and gangs of marauding youths.

Interested to hear what she has to say about Trump and his climate hoax claim. Can we sue him for deliberate ignorance?

Kawaha. Teacher.

Kindness matters. Kindness is its own reward. Thank you for being a good person, Al, and I hope your recording studio takes off!

Imagine if we were nice to non human animals. Imagine.

How shit people are. The comments and the piece utterly fail to reflect on the cruelty these animals endure. Injected with COVID and HIV. Do it to your own species and leave others out of it, why don’t you? Humans. Scum.

Cutting back on candy is a lot cheaper than taking a weight loss drug.

Nothing on the ecological impact.

Utilitarianism is not the solution. First, examine attitudes. That will elicit the how of what you do. Find your how and you will find your why.

Don’t buy plastic or sugary crap and you’ll be healthier and wealthier. Don’t bother with Halloween at all and just celebrate with a walk and a good meal and play games like apple ducking and you’ll be wiser too!

She's pro-peace, pro-ecological emergency action, and pro-neutrality. She's got a good heart and a lovely smile, and she can speak Irish and she swims in the sea. Let's see what happens, shall we? Sound's like a person of the people, for the people, to me.