Novel ideas

Three assessments of the online world

Why is it important to notice the changing of the seasons and how does it help our understanding of nature? It’s fun and satisfying to notice changes with each passing day. And the things we enjoy doi

GH ’s Simon Swift considers what future generations might make of our decisions about what to keep and what to let go of

For many years, Hugo Young’s This Blessed Plot (1998) was seen as the authoritative account of Britain’s semi-detached relationship with the European Union, as it had then recently become. This was a

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Anyone who’s read Helen Macdonald’s remarkable memoir H is for Hawk – about grief, nature and training a goshawk – will be aware of its powerful impact. The book has now been turned into a film starri