Echoes of JFK with Putin’s war

A year of nature notes

The UK honours system is a dishonoured mess.

Thunberg the stand-out COP26 class act in Glasgow so far

Every generation loses its icons ... but it still hurts

The world needs to listen to the man who 'saved' it...

Reading J D Salinger's ‘The Catcher In the Rye’ again

Bill Gates’ new climate change book pulls no punches but fires blanks too

Five years since David’s death but his music largely passed me by

Melissa Harrison’s stunning nature podcasts and book

Puffery posing as biography

Talking coincidence with Donna Tartt

A master of the written and spoken word