Are we living in a dystopian universe? Maybe. Something about the ubiquity of email surveillance, deep-fake videos and uncontrolled rainforest fires is causing people to say that, yes, the world we live in now is as perplexing and corrupt as anything written by Orwell...
Who’d have thought that it’s almost 15 years since Jamie Oliver first waged war against fried food, sugary drinks and the infamous Turkey Twizzlers of the school dining hall? At the time, the 2005 government listened to Oliver’s crusade: they gave funding, the...
Why Macbeth Really Didn’t Help It’s fair to say that we’ve come a long way since Shakespeare’s time, understanding the true causes of crop failure, mental illness and adverse weather. Thanks, Science! 400 years ago, though, it seemed reasonable – and easy...
