The very horny spirit of 2026 in grey-scale

The Yorkshire Post features what 'world-famous yogi' Sadhguru has to say about the wind farm project at the heart of Brontë Country.

One of the world’s most high-profile environmental campaigners has warned against Saudi-backed plans to build one of the country’s biggest windfarms on the wild moorland that was the inspiration for Wuthering Heights.

Walshaw Moor, near Halifax in West Yorkshire, is designated as a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area due to its rare peatland habitat and red-listed bird species, including curlews, lapwings, skylarks, merlins, and golden plovers.

The ruined farmhouse on top of the moor is said to have inspired the novel by Emily Brontë, which shot to prominence again earlier this year with Emerald Fennell’s movie adaptation starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie.

Despite its legal protections, the developers are pushing ahead with plans to build 34 wind turbines – at 200m more than 40m higher than the Blackpool Tower – and a battery energy storage system, known as Calderdale Energy Park.

MPs from Labour and the Conservatives have objected to the project, highlighting the fact that the scheme would cover more than 2,300 hectares of protected peatland, one of the UK’s most important natural carbon stores.

Now Sadhguru, a spiritual yogi who is the leader of the Save Soil movement and one of the most famous campaigners in India, told The Yorkshire Post that certain soil types like peatland “must be prioritised” over developments.

He said: “Preserving agricultural land and soil health is a generational responsibility.

“We are just pop ups on this planet, and our actions have an impact on generations to come.

“Whether it is peatlands or any kind of soil, construction can definitely cause its damage.

“It’s not that all development is negative, and renewable energy sources are needed - but certain soil types are unique in their ability to regulate our climate, are essential for the surrounding biodiversity, and their future prosperity must be prioritised.” (Ralph Blackburn)

A contributor to El País comments on the grey-scale trend in Hollywood.

But these are not isolated cases: recently, the same technique has been used in other movies with historical backdrops such as Macbeth (Justin Kurzel, 2015), Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd, 2016), The King (David Michôd, 2019), The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio, 2022), The Northman (Robert Eggers, 2022), Firebrand (Karim Aïnouz, 2023) and Wuthering Heights (Emerald Fennel, 2026). And last year Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet entered the Oscars race with that same visual register used also in French blockbusters such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, and Spanish movies from Alatriste to El Cautivo.

In all these cases, the absence of color tells us we are watching an important film, suitable both for an award and box office success, as discussed by the artist and scholar David Batchelor in his book Chromophobia (Ed. Síntesis), originally published in 2000. According to Batchelor, this expulsion of color usually takes place in one of two ways. In the first, the color is attributed to some “foreign” body: the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological — or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic. In the first case, the color is considered something strange and, therefore, dangerous; in the second, it is perceived simply as a secondary quality of experience and, therefore, unworthy of serious consideration. (Ianko López)

But does that description really fit Wuthering Heights 2026?

A couple of other news sites also mention things connected to Wuthering Heights 2026. RNZ reports that copies of The Odyssey are 'flying off the shelves around New Zealand':

The booksellers say the surge in interest followed a similar pattern after other film adaptations earlier this year for The Wuthering Heights and Project Hail Mary. (Isra'a Emhail)

While a contributor to KXLY mentions 'the very horny spirit of 2026'.

Entertainment can often be a way for us to switch off. This year what’s on our screens has frequently been aimed at turning us on. From the sensual pleasures of “Wuthering Heights” to the steamy shower scenes in “Heated Rivalry”, sex has been front and center in a slew of recent hits in ways that might previously have made them ineligible to be mainstream cultural powerhouses. It’s safe to say horniness is having a moment. (David Mack)

The New Yorker discusses extreme morning sickness.

Charlotte Brontë, the author of “Jane Eyre,” who died, at thirty-eight, a few months into pregnancy, in 1855, experienced “sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness,” according to her biographer and friend Elizabeth Gaskell. Though her death certificate lists the cause of death as phthisis, or tuberculosis, contemporary scholars believe she died of complications from H.G. (Anna Russell)

Times Now lists '8 Book Quotes That Perfectly Capture What Finally Finding 'The One' Feels Like' including one from Jane Eyre.