Re your article on eating crickets to save the world (The rise of ‘ento-veganism’: how eating crickets could help save the world, 7 August), it is true that crickets have a lower…
I found Wendy Pratt’s article insightful, but I fear it risks sending the wrong message (A moment that changed me: I quit my PhD – and left my severe impostor syndrome behind, 7 August).…
Creating the right habitats with public money is helping to stop nature’s decline or even reverse it. That’s the good news from Natural England, which reports more butterflies, bees, bats…
When The Spirit Level was published 15 years ago in the latter days of Gordon Brown’s premiership, its analysis of the corrosive social impact of inequality turned it into an instant…
This is what a fundamental power shift looks like. Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, has swept away the worst of the Tories’ strike-banning laws. The 2023 law, known as the…
I have always thought of myself as the very model of a model European. Both sets of my grandparents were diplomats who lived and worked all over Europe and the world, and spoke several…
In January 2024, the US Defense Intelligence Agency’s Middle East crisis cell awoke to the heartbreaking news that three US soldiers had been killed in a drone strike on the Tower 22 base…
On 6 August, a substantial Ukrainian force launched a cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, shelling the little town of Sudzha and reportedly occupying several villages.…
A new academic year is coming soon. But as students flock back to campuses, we will probably see fewer international student faces. According to the latest statistics, the number of work…
In recent decades, the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy disproportionately affected emerging-market and developing economies. But interest-rate differentials…