Tristram Shandy and the consolations of comedy
The story of “A COCK and a BULL . . . And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard”:
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was
The lockdown litterbugs
‘The enduring images etched in my mind after lockdown are not of nature nurtured but nature trashed, suffocating under mountains of litter’
The rise of “choking”
‘When the musician Andy Anokye was accused of assaulting a number of women—committing acts that included strangling them, waterboarding them, and holding a gun
Tolerating the intolerant
"For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again"
The Overshoot
A poem from Zonal
Focusing on the female gaze
The pioneering women who, over more than 150 years, embraced photography — a medium for free-spirited women who wanted to chart their own course
Breaking a few eggs
"Before anyone had even thought of hen-rehoming as a thing, my mother had become an inadvertent rehomer of escapees from the nearby broiler house"