Wintering: How I learned to flourish when life became frozen

by Katherine May

At the other end of the political spectrum, Mussolini was fond of evoking the beehive to describe the ideal functioning of Fascism. ‘It is usual to speak of the Fascist objective as the “beehive state”, which does grave injustice to bees,’ wrote George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier. ‘A world of rabbits ruled by stoats would be nearer the mark.’