What’s the deal with whaling?

As an island nation, the UK has a long and proud fishing history, a cultural identity that caused waves in the 2016 campaign to leave the EU. For a few days in May 2025 that passion resurfaced, when t

Speakers: Peter Hoskin—Books & culture editor, Prospect—Chair Anjali Goswami—Chief scientific adviser, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Rosie Boycott—Vice chair & director, Peers for t

Good Housekeeping ’s special projects director, Emma Justice , ticks wildlife, helicopters and huskies off her bucket list on an Alaskan cruise

On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t

One answer to this question is relatively straightforward. For much of Greek history, people living near the coast or on the islands ate plenty of fish and seafood – not out of obsession, but out of p

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