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The tension between economic and environmental policy

Lives and how to live them

www.yachtingmonthly.com/books The first chapter of Tom Cunliffe’s ...

With a season of winter storms approaching James Batty explains how to make the most of the great bass fishing that comes during or after a big blow

This month’s story, ‘The Curious Case of Davidson’s Eyes’ by HG Wells, has a superficially simple premise. But, as we’ll see, that premise throws up a lot of conundrums in the course of the narrative.

Smothering, transformative and beautiful, fog’s close-set shroud has inspired titans of literature, cinema and art–and forces the rest of us to look at the world a little closer, writes John Lewis-Stempel