The new hippy style tribes

You remember hippies. They wore flowers in their long, lank hair, smoked pot, took psychedelic drugs, got into Eastern mysticism, believed in free love, communes and vegetarianism. Take Paul and Linda McCartney, for example, who proved that being the most famous pop-star couple on the planet was not incompatible with living off-grid in Scotland, growing your own food and home-schooling – at least for a bit.

And now, thanks to a new dawn of eco awareness and climate change protest – boosted by the lockdown upswing in self-sufficiency – we’ve seen a resurgence of the hippy spirit. It’s not quite the same as it was (though you won’t look out of place in an Afghan waistcoat this autumn), but now there are degrees of hippies, from eco warriors to vegan-curious hot-composters and all the various tribes