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As I make my way to the greenhouses a seagull kills me in its pure white throat. Quiet in the…
Really wild excuses
The Environment Agency may not be much use to humans, but it does great things for the depressed river mussel
‘A screaming, grievance-hawking shambles’
Welcome to feminism in the age of intersectionality
The church of self-worship
Sunday morning among the atheists
Nuclear fallout
Britain is about to buy the world’s most expensive power station
New York notebook
Bard College in upstate New York, where I teach in the spring semester, is an interesting institution, once better known…
Investment: In safe hands
Investment trusts are coming back into fashion – and rightly so
Investment: Love for shale
Here’s how to get a slice of the fracking action
Investment: America vs gravity
Reality may be about to reassert itself after an extraordinary hot streak
North Devon
It was late September. My wife and I were feeling overworked and overstressed — our mental states not helped by…
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As I make my way to the greenhouses a seagull kills me in its pure white throat. Quiet in the…
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As I make my way to the greenhouses a seagull kills me in its pure white throat. Quiet in the…
‘Instant wildlife – just add water’
The ideology that created an unnatural disaster
Meeting in the Small Hours
He was there again in the small hours: not this time in a dream, but in a dream of dreaming.…
Oscar syndrome
Awards ceremonies grow ever sillier and more self-important
Serious fun
Media moguls aren’t philosophers. So it’s time for philosophers to become media moguls
Looking for racism
Britain has less prejudice than the countries where I’ve lived before – and more people taking offence
Lust begins at 50
Have I become a dirty old man?
It has to stop?
Upspeak can damage your career prospects
The Marche
When I first visited the Marche a dozen years ago, folk who knew about such things tapped their noses and…
Meeting in the Small Hours
He was there again in the small hours: not this time in a dream, but in a dream of dreaming.…
Meeting in the Small Hours
He was there again in the small hours: not this time in a dream, but in a dream of dreaming.…
Union in peril
Alex Salmond is on course to win. Why hasn’t England noticed?
Zeteticism
Whatever savants say, the world is flat, not round; the ships that crowd the bay are for its limit bound.…
Hello, Mrs President
The American right hates Hillary Clinton as much as ever. But that doesn’t mean they know how to stop her
