Articles by Philip Hoare

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A Moment That Changed Me – Looking a Sperm Whale in the Eye
Philip Hoare – The Guardian, 14 Sep 2015

I’d always been scared of these great creatures but while filming in the Azores, I jumped into the ocean amid a pod of whales – and met another sentient being. She looked at me, with an eye the size of a grapefruit, with absolute sentience and curiosity, wondering what I was.

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A Victory for the Whalers, a Defeat for Humanity
Philip Hoare – The Independent, 28 Jun 2010

The IWC’s decision to retain its ban on whaling does not mean that the killings will stop. Quite the reverse.

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