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What I saw in the French riots

21 October 2026 6:40 am

It’s the third week of the student-led protests in Lyon, and the second that my university has been blockaded “in…

What history doesn’t tell us

7 June 2025 9:00 am

The trouble with history is that it is topiary. History is what’s left after the unwanted foliage has been clipped…

Cooking up a storm

26 September 2020 9:00 am

You can’t say he didn’t warn us. In the final sentence of his previous book, Heat, a joyously gluttonous exploration…