F or the whole of human history, we have shared our world with birds . We have hunted and domesticated them for food; worshipped them in our religions; placed them at the heart of our myths and legend

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T o get a sense of why Toyoda Akio announced on January 26th that he would hand over the keys to the world’s biggest carmaker to Sato Koji, his number two, watch the surreal video from 2021 of the two

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T he moment was unforgettable. Dervla Murphy was ten, struggling up a steep hill near Lismore in County Waterford on her second-hand bike, when she looked down at her thin legs slowly pumping and thou

T o understand how discipline is changing in British schools, go to Michaela Community School in north London. Among the first things you see are vast bright billboards. Whereas other schools coax pup

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H e was just a boy, only 17. Yet in the World Cup final of 1958 Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, showed the poise and supreme skill that would mark his career. As Brazil led Sweden,

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I n September 2017 a group of young women from a jewellery school came to Daniel Brush’s studio-cum-home, a loft in mid-Manhattan. They crammed onto his sofas, awed to be meeting a figure who, to them

Street closures good. Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images The urban planner and writer Jeff Speck has spent years arguing the same deceptively simple point: We should be able to walk where we live. Th

“O nce in royal David’s city, stood a lowly cattle shed.” The soloist’s voice sliced through the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, a small church in a corner of the Palace of Westminster, before a congreg

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T he best guide to British politics today was written 13 years ago and features the Marxist analysis of Slavoj Zizek applied to the Disney film “Wall-E”. “Capitalist Realism”, a short and eclectic boo

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Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be

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A s the labour party gathers for its annual conference in Liverpool, attention will focus on the lecture hall, where Sir Keir Starmer will insist that the party he leads is ready for office. But a tru