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Elephants walk on tiptoes — but can they dance? This year’s stocking-fillers explore such puzzles

20 November 2021 9:00 am

It’s almost a shock to admit it, but this year’s gift books aren’t bad at all. It’s even possible that,…

It wasn't just pollsters who were useless in the election; pundits were too

16 May 2015 9:00 am

It takes some agility to shoot yourself in the foot and saw off the branch you’re sitting on, while hoisting…

From Stephen Collins’s Some Comics

The 10 best loo books of 2014: why we sing so much better in the shower and what became of Queen Victoria’s children’s milk teeth

22 November 2014 9:00 am

Nancy Mitford would not call them ‘toilet books’, that’s for certain. Loo books? Lavatory books? One or two people I…