Female of the species

For a little over six months, you could glimpse the future from the window of the Big Issue’s London offices. Sandwiched between an estate management agency and a clothes shop, Yum Bug – the capital’s

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

From the pleasures of harvesting your own one-of-a-kind honey to the meditative calm that methodical hive-management brings, beekeeping has much to offer, finds Jane Wheatley

Remember, remember, watch wildlife in November,

“When you see one cockroach, there are probably more… Everyone should be forewarned,” says Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase. The largest US bank by assets has been caught up in a growing imbroglio a