Features
Mealybug Nymphs, Gossamer
after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665) A warm wall, heavy leaves, hard green grapes and a cluster of…
Death watch
If you don’t think legalising ‘assisted dying’ is a slippery slope, you haven’t been paying attention
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
Last orders
The fight to save the Gladstone Arms is the fight to save London
The breast test
New mothers who can’t keep to the breast-feeding orthodoxy face needless misery and shame
War still has the best tunes
Why our politicians keep going back to military intervention, no matter how often it fails
Powder to the people
Fierce competition is forcing drug dealers to adjust their sales methods
Pink horns and poison
Can anything protect the rhino from rapacious human stupidity?
The lessons of exam results season
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
The lessons of exam results season
Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…
The Matador
The matador scowled at the back of the bar, and sipped his beer. He wanted to stab the people who…
The dangerous food fad
The ‘clean eating’ revolution is more likely to make you ill than healthy
Hills
As soon as you stop and rest you see more hills ahead, Great chains of hills to some improbable horizon.…
Mirror, mirror
The uglier the man, the more he demeans women
Iowa notebook
The Iowa State Fair ‘Donnnaaallldd!!! Donnnaaaaallldd!!!’ Donald Trump was surrounded by fans. He looked happy. He took a bite out of…
Capitalism’s true enemies
The far left can’t win – unless it has the aid of a callous and complacent right
Don’t act white, act migrant
Black British boys are being held back by fear of betraying their background. Immigrant children know how to deal with that
Peer review
Something needs to be done about the overstuffed House of Lords
‘With Your Wings’
A lost short story by John Steinbeck
Antigua
‘Tourism, tourism and tourism,’ said my Antiguan cab driver, when I asked what the country’s main industries were. Still, it’s…
Hills
As soon as you stop and rest you see more hills ahead, Great chains of hills to some improbable horizon.…
Antigua
‘Tourism, tourism and tourism,’ said my Antiguan cab driver, when I asked what the country’s main industries were. Still, it’s…
Hills
As soon as you stop and rest you see more hills ahead, Great chains of hills to some improbable horizon.…
Exit the dragon
China’s long boom may finally be ending. The consequences for the world will be profound
