China’s brutal one-child policy will be catastrophic for us all
China’s brutal one-child policy was not only inhuman; it will profoundly damage the rest of the world, says Hilary Spurling
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John Aubrey and his circle: those magnificent men and their flying machines
John Aubrey investigated everything from the workings of the brain, the causation of winds and the origins of Stonehenge to…
Literature's least attractive power couple
This book charts the rise and fall of one of the strangest power couples of modern times. The senior partner…
An enchanted forest of family trees
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‘He’s socially awkward but brilliant in his field.’
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