During late August 2025, the Hunterian Museum of Zoology in Glasgow hosted Snake Summer, an event covering snakes in science, folklore and fantasy organised by Dr Will Tattersdill of the University of

Context is everything. A statement such as ‘the most dangerous animal in the country’ gets a different reaction depending on whether you’re talking about the UK, where it’s likely to be a cow, or Aust

A Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early

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

BEHIND THE BIG CRIME