We are launching our new digital journal, TAP ON THE GLASS, with an ESSAY CONTEST. This is the first in a series of writing competitions. Throughout the summer, we will hold several competitions welcoming writing across a variety of formats. Essays, poems, and short fiction–each will add a new branch to our journal. Come autumn time, pieces from each branch will form the matter of our first print edition. During this particular contest, we’re looking for essays responding to

Alfie Callan on how Keir Starmer and the UK government are quietly sacrificing chickens and quality welfare and climate standards. Imagine living your entire life on just one foot. For many chickens reared and farmed in the UK, that is the bleak reality. You grow up on your foot, sleep on your foot, sit beak to beak, breast to breast with other chickens on one foot, unable to move or extend your wings. You defecate – because everybody needs the loo – and sleep, live out your

Camoya Evans continues interviewing Dr Jessica Bell Rizzolo, an interdisciplinary researcher whose work spans wildlife tourism, wildlife trade, and conservation policy. Moving from activism to academia, Dr Rizzolo emphasises the agency and social lives of animals and calls for new conservation frameworks that restore ecosystems and animal agency. She explores the complexities of captivity and wildlife tourism, highlighting the need for animal welfare literacy and transparent,