Jul 6th 2019 I N “YEARS AND YEARS” , a new television drama co-produced by the BBC and HBO , Emma Thompson plays a politician whose abrasive ideas, such as barring those with low IQ s from voting, roc
Jun 22nd 2019 HELSINKI, MEXICO CITY AND SEOUL M ARTIN SALOMÓN has brought his dog, Manolo, to the “canine area” of a public park in Condesa, a wealthy district of Mexico City. As he watches the happy,
Jun 29th 2019 G ORDON BROWN is doing a much better job of being an elder statesman than he did of being prime minister. A man who was seen as a failure in office has transmogrified into a widely respe
Doors and windows and what’s real 2019-07-01 Like everyone, I live in a little house with many doors and windows. One door goes out to my neighborhood.The local kids come to play with my dog.The elder
Jun 22nd 2019 T HERE IS A revealing tradition of apostasy in American politics. Ronald Reagan’s disingenuous claim never to have left the Democratic Party (“It left me”) helped him woo millions of blu
Jun 20th 2019 A MONG THE compensations of ageing is the right to bore youngsters with stories of the prices of yesteryear. Once upon a time a ticket to the cinema cost just five quid, and a hogshead o
Jun 22nd 2019 NEW YORK A NDREW YANG , the New York entrepreneur running for the Democratic presidential nomination, cannot be accused of lacking confidence. “I only see two outcomes in this race. One,
Jun 20th 2019 I S YOUR PROMOTION really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing the hierarchy of their organisations. The prospect of higher pay helps explain their ambition, but so does
Jun 22nd 2019 T HERE IS A range of theories about how Homo sapiens came to rule the planet. Opposable thumbs, cranial size, altruism and cooking all played a part, but central to the naked ape’s succe
Jun 15th 2019 AMSTERDAM “A RE YOU getting enough satisfaction in your bedroom?” purrs the narrator of a recent advert for IKEA , a Swedish retailer. If not, the “ IKEA Kama Sutra” has the solution: lo
Something look funny? Read this newsletter online! Hey everyone, and another happy Fri-YAY! I am sitting here at my own kitchen table this afternoon watching the rain POUR down. What the heck Amsterda
Jun 13th 2019 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. By Elif Shafak. Viking; 320 pages; £14.99. T HE PROTAGONIST of Elif Shafak’s 11th novel is dead when it begins. It is 1990, and the body of “
Jun 15th 2019 O N JUNE 10TH the BBC announced that next year most over-75s will have to pay to watch television like everyone else. Cue an outbreak of hysteria. Charities complained that the decision
Jun 15th 2019 M ORE THAN 70,000 gamers, developers and publishers descended on Los Angeles to goggle at each other’s wares and show off their own at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E 3), which beg
Content On a sunny afternoon in May, 2015, I joined a dozen other surgeons at a downtown Boston office building to begin sixteen hours of mandatory computer training. We sat in three rows, each of us
Jun 8th 2019 W HENEVER she tried to draw a tiger, Judith Kerr disliked the result. For “The Tiger Who Came to Tea” she went to the zoo, usually with her small daughter Tacy, and drew them for hours. H
Jun 6th 2019 POLK COUNTY, TEXAS T ONY MEDINA is a polite, burly man with heavily tattooed arms. Like all those confined at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, he is dressed in white. The prison’s squat grey b
Jun 8th 2019 “Y OU MIGHT not get this crazy game,” warned Tom Heitz, a historian, before attempting to induct a crowd of baseball scholars into the mysteries of town ball. An early form of baseball, p
Jun 6th 2019 C ICERO, THE Roman statesman whose prose is thought to represent the peak of style in Latin, was also a bit of a snob about it. Few others, he complained in a tome written in 46 BC , used
Jun 6th 2019 “I F HE SCORES another few then I’ll be Muslim too,” chant Liverpool fans whenever Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian striker, finds the net. Since arriving in June 2017, he has done so with reco
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More people than ever are living long, healthy lives. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the average life expectancy is 78.6 years for men and 81.1 for women. More relevant
May 30th 2019 W HEN IN 1984 I.M.Pei, then the most sought-after architect in America, presented his plans for a 70-foot glass pyramid in the 18th-century courtyard of the Louvre, the general reaction
Jun 1st 2019 S EEN FROM afar, Europe is shrinking and ineffective. In Germany Angela Merkel’s chancellorship is winding down. Domestic woes bedevil the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Britain is le
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