The Irish border: Take out a map and look at it

It's funny that the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is called the 'Irish' border. Yes, it's on the island of Ireland, but it certainly wasn't an Irish idea. At least, the vast majority of the island's citizens didn't want the country to be cut in two in the 1920s, and many have campaigned, both peacefully and violently, to put it back together. But not even Irish people in the far south of the island, where the...

Restaurant Review: Titu

“#gyozadreams” reads the laser-cut decal emblazoned across the window of Titu. A sentiment so drenched with hubris, it’s almost arrogant; perhaps fittingly for this hive of Mayfair that’s still yet to be dragged into 2018. Although festooned with commendable independent restaurants, Shepherd Market and its surrounding warren of narrow streets remain adulterated with cigar smoke, juxtaposed to the gold-wrap supercar fumes of nearby Berkeley Street. Titu, though, is refreshingly modern. Officially London’s smallest restaurant, the 15-cover space opened just three...

The most shocking Hothouse Earth revelation is that it is entirely avoidable

"Once we understand the extremity of our plight, once we no longer deny it, then we just might have the will to try drastically to change course", Rupert Read wrote in The London Economic shortly after the winter cold snap brought a record-breaking chill to British shores. As the continent basks in heat the latest study from an international team of climate researchers shows we are heading for a Hothouse Earth scenario which could turn some of the Earth's natural forces that currently protect us...

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