You mean what you eat
This week the Christian period of Lent begins, and we are reminded of the important mythical significance of foods.
Dis-cuss
Talk is Cheap – The myth of the Focus Group is one of the Guardian’s weekly Long Reads. This one, by US academic Liza Featherstone, is long on campus conspiracy theory and short on understanding…
The boys are back in town
It’s 10 years since the global financial crisis and high time we had another one. As and when we do, there’s sure to be renewed interest in the most dynamic emerging markets. And there seem few more dynamic than Bangladesh…
A highly effective cup of tea
I had the pleasure of a cup of tea with Paul Feldwick the other day…
No lakh of babies yet
There’s something of a preoccupation with large numbers in India. What other country has its own terms for hundreds of thousands (lakh) or tens of millions (crore) and its own way of writing them down in figures?
A guardian of the past and the future
It’s been a big couple of weeks for the Guardian – Britain’s newspaper of choice for the progressively minded (or irritatingly ‘right on’ depending on which way you look at it.)
The letter of the lore
It’s been brewing for a while but it’s now official. Kazakhstan (an endlessly beautiful country I had the pleasure of visiting for two weeks last summer) is switching from Cyrillic to Latin script…