Are you tired of next month’s Budget yet? Governments fly so many kites these days it feels as though we have been through the whole thing twice in slow motion already. No wonder: last year the chance

TYLER NORRIS SPEAKS JUST AS YOU might expect a renewable-power developer turned academic would talk. Phrases like maximum nameplate capacity and new load integration glide off the tongue. He delves in

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

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WHEN A TRADITIONAL COOKING STOVE LEFT HER toddler with life-threatening burns, Charlot Magayi turned grief into resolve. From Nairobi’s Mukuru slum, she set out to reinvent the stove, and in doing so

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