Echt Croatian classics
Burek, cotolette and layer cake in Zagreb
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Baked-in bias
‘Once social media entities become publishers, any political bias already present will be baked in’
Debates that never die
‘The Brexit shambles could have been largely avoided if there had been from June 2016 a government which — unlike Theresa May’s — was 100 per committed to taking Britain out of
Civilisation made concrete
The ancient Assyrians deserve to be remembered for being pioneering builders and engineers
Is this the real life or just fantasy?
It may not be possible to know if we are living in a simulation — but perhaps we don’t need certainty
Escaping the Moscow ghetto
How a brilliant young Russian mathematician was blocked by blatant Soviet anti-Semitism
A la France profonde
Snails, wine and history in northern Burgundy
The heroes who came up with zero
‘Arabic’ numerals came to Europe from India — but ancient Sumerians invented them
An Italian take on time and space
Events in the quantum world do not form an orderly queue but crowd around in a chaotic fashion
Amid the alien corn
Maize is a far more useful grain than we give it credit for
New Year confusions
We celebrated our New Year on January 1 but the Chinese will do so this month. Why the difference?
Acting the goat with the Greeks
Innumeracy at the top of European politics beggared Greece and may now vitiate Brexit negotiations