Philip Coulter profiles both men and looks at what their gardens tell us about two very different worlds. In November 1989, Canada pledged to eliminate child poverty within ten years. Instead, poverty rates have skyrocketed. The last indigenous people in Europe, the reindeer-herding Sami, have maintained a unique culture for thousands of years. Philip Coulter goes north of the Arctic Circle to find out how they have survived and found a place in the modern world.
Some cultures name only two colours, others name three or four.
The Homeric Greeks had terms that entwined colour, iridescence and speed. Some African languages differentiate the colour and pattern of the coats of cattle. Thus colours are not abstract entities but patches of fur. Goa is a place. It is techno music, a global trance state.