“To put it bluntly, society is becoming pathetically soft,” Mr Dedman said. “We can’t do anything for ourselves and don’t know much about our natural world. “Kids need to be taught that from an early ...

“In a survival situation, fussy people die,” says Gordon Dedman, passing around a bowl of wriggling mealworms. Not good news for someone who still cuts the crusts off his sandwiches. It takes all my ...