COMMENTARY MAGAZINE (March 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘In Praise Of Big Pharma’; How American Aid has subsidized Terror and The Coalition of the Sentimental & Homicidal for Palestine…
“If we allow the hatred of the industry to continue, we are going to lose investment and people are going to die.” by Tevi Troy
Washington Commentary by Matthew Continetti
Social Commentary by Christine Rosen
Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins
Floods threaten to spread sediments laden with toxicants
In trio of studies, scientists explore life in the mysterious hadal zone
Some termination letters cite “biological realities” to dismiss usefulness of such research
At least 1.1 million years old, a fossil face suggests more than one type of early human inhabited Europe
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (March 13, 2025): The latest issue features America’s new foreign policy…
To avoid being crushed, they need a better plan than flattery and concessions
A fresh critique of migration is gaining ground. Liberals must take it seriously
Like the stockmarket, the dollar is also suffering from falling confidence and rising confusion
With unaccustomed speed, Paris, Berlin and London, along with the European Commission, are stepping up with a new “whatever it takes” mentality to create a framework for their own defence. Our coverage, led by Toby Helm and with contributions from our correspondents in Kyiv, Brussels and Berlin, examines how fiscal shibboleths are being shed to allow for increased military spending, and from Berlin a growing enthusiasm for Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to consider sheltering under France’s independent nuclear umbrella.
Spotlight | ‘Here you will die’
Mark Townsend reports from Sudan on how the retreat of rebel RSF forces has led to the discovery of a torture centre, evidence of what could be one of the worst atrocities of the civil war
Technology | Roboshop
Can an AI agent prove itself smart enough to help Victoria Turk with her shopping? And, if it can order groceries and a takeaway, what else might it soon be able to do?
Feature | All the young Reform dudes
What is it about Nigel Farage’s Reform party that is attracting young men fed up with establishment politics? Gaby Hinsliff finds out
Opinion | The Sicilian ways of Donald Trump
The US president’s way of doing business is uncomfortably close to the fictional Corleone method, but without the mafia’s sense of honour, says Jonathan Freedland
Culture | Arthouse animation moves on up
Hot on the Academy Awards’ success of Flow, Xan Brooks looks at how independent animators are taking on the big-budget Hollywood studios and finding audiences are falling back in love with stop-go techniques
NATURE MAGAZINE (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Good Or Bad?’ – Simple two-point rating system curbs racial bias in the gig economy.
The presence of a pattern called a sleep spindle helps to predict which people will recover from an unresponsive state.
A network of two polymers plus sulfuric acid allows a hydrogel to keep its elasticity and softness at extreme temperatures.
Clay figurines found on top of the remnants of a pyramid in what is now El Salvador might have been used in public ceremonies.
Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads take an outsized toll.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Only Way Is Down’ – On hopeful pessimism; The death of a poet in war; On democracy; Did museums purchase or plunder and Crippen’s crimes…
Hope, despair and retreat in an unquiet age By Kieran Setiya
The crusades in the English literary imagination By David Abulafia
The role of women in crusading history
Sixty years of turmoil in Egypt
THE SCIENTIST MAGAZINE (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Peto’s Paradox’ – How gigantic species evolved to beat cancer…
Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against cancer.
Every DNA fragment tells a story. Forensic experts use these genetic breadcrumbs to solve old mysteries and modern crimes.
Younger individuals are developing colorectal cancer earlier in life compared to older generations, and scientists don’t know why.
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (March 11, 2025): The cover of Country Life’s 12 March 2025 issue, featuring The Garden Hall at Pitshill House, West Sussex, as photographed by Paul Whitbread.
Water you wading for?
The village pond, once the hub around which community life revolved, is being reinvented as a ‘superpower’ habitat for rare species, finds Vicky Liddell
Sorry seems to be the easiest word
Deborah Nicholls-Lee makes no apology for asking why there is nothing more British than saying sorry (up to eight times a day, we regret to say)
Two’s company, three’s a crowd farmer
Jane Wheatley is impressed by a new European project linking farmers direct to consumers in an effort to ensure fair pricing
Peak sugar
Harry Pearson is sweet on Kendal Mint Cake, the original energy snack that is still going strong after conquering Everest and crossing the Antarctic
Arts & antiques
Nature’s beauty and vulnerability are laid bare in a new exhibition at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, as Carla Passino discovers
Josh Eggleton’s favourite painting
The chef and restaurant owner chooses a contemporary collage that keeps the viewer guessing
Like cats on a hot tin roof
A feline stand-off in a Wiltshire farmyard has echoes of tax and trade talks for Minette Batters
Gothic splendours
John Goodall hails the rebirth of Victorian gem Allerton Castle in North Yorkshire, some two decades after a devastating fire
The legacy
Kate Green lauds the brilliant, but tragically brief blooming of cello prodigy Jacqueline du Pré
The red army
Ian Morton reveals why we don’t want wood ants in our pants
The good stuff
Pretty pastels are back for spring, so think pink, says Hetty Lintell
Bring me everlasting flowers
Catriona Gray meets a man crafting blooms from coppiced hazel
If you want colour…
Picture-perfect primulas offer an easy way to festoon the garden with a kaleidoscope of colour, suggests Charles Quest-Ritson
Foraging
John Wright savours the peppery crunch and kick of black mustard, but he’ll never pick it in Yeovil
It’s a Scream
The wild work of Edvard Munch betrayed a troubled soul, but the Norwegian artist found salvation in Nature, declares Jessica Lack
MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW (March 11, 2025): The spring 2025 issue focuses on innovation, developing KPIs, building a learning culture collaborating on climate initiatives, and more.
Outsiders can spark new thinking by challenging norms and spotting overlooked opportunities.
Replacing onsite design-thinking sessions with virtual ones fundamentally changes the innovation process and outcomes.
Causal ML enables managers to explore different options to improve decision-making.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 11, 2025): The latest issue features Mussolini to Meloni; A trip to Mar-a-Lago; The Brothers Grimm and Europe’s Holy Alliance…
Tuberculosis is the world’s most deadly infectious disease, killing more than a million people a year and infecting many millions more, even though treatment in the form of antibiotics has existed for seventy years.
On Sunday, 9 March, at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the City of London Sinfonia and the London Review of Books will be collaborating on an evening of music and readings inspired by Edward Said’s last, posthumous book, On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain.
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