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"
Supply-chain fragility
‘Without a comprehensive deal, food shortages after Brexit will be far more severe than anything seen during the pandemic’
Diary
‘I have barely worn trousers for five months now. In the Zoom era no-one sees below the fifth button of your shirt. You could get away with wearing nothing at all’
The lure of totalitarianism
"Across the Western world, friends and families have fallen out over their diverging views on the populism that has flourished in the past two decades"
Sphinx without a secret
"Whether it’s the shadow government or the global elite, if it’s not one sinister cabal intent on taking over the world, then it’s another"
Inventing the sublime
As far as Rev Gilpin was concerned, he would have to rearrange Nature in his sketchbook until she became, in his approving term, “Picturesque”
The weird West
How would you complete this sentence? “I am . . .” Did you say “a journalist/lawyer/doctor” or “adventurous/intelligent/intellectually curious”? Or did you say “I am Arthur’s mother” or “Emily’s Dad”?
An ark in the deluge
"Libraries and archives are central to democracy because they are the storehouses of knowledge and truth"
Thousands of new French windfarms — but no reduction in carbon emissions
‘Wind and solar power make it impossible for France to close down its remaining fossil fuel power stations’