The empire’s last hurrah?

TLS contributors choose their favourites

Ruth Jones and James Corden are giddy with excitement when they arrive to talk with Big Issue. We are in St Katharine Docks, London, where they’re midway through the edit for the 90-minute Gavin & Sta

In southern belize, in the district of Toledo, lies the wonderfully named Maya Golden Landscape. This 275,000ha swathe of forest is as magical as it sounds, connecting mountains to coast and shelterin

hen giving talks on UFOs I’m sometimes asked which single event offers the best evidence for intelligent alien life. Until the recent preprint report from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory conclud

How she turned rejection into lifelong fortune, favour and independence

Q My grandfather, Thomas Gilbert Holman, was born in 1869/70. The earliest record I have for him is as a ‘visitor’ in the household of Walter Fitch, in Kelvedon, Essex, in the 1911 census. He is singl