The rise of plant poaching: how a craze for succulents is driving a new illegal trade
In the wilds of South Africa’s Northern Cape, poaching ‘green diamonds’ has become an almost irresistible temptation ...
From Love Island to the outback: Australians cash in on shortage of electricians
The shortage of electricians stretches back to the early 1980s, said Wright, as more Australians opted to go to university ...
Bafta-nominated actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I prefer the roles out on the margins’
Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world ...
John McAslan’s house of two halves
The journey – or enfilade – through the McAslan home, situated on a leafy, residential street, begins at a knee-height ...
Is private equity behind the surging cost of veterinary care?
Critics of ‘roll up’ strategy say consolidation has stoked price inflation but industry says other factors are at play ...
Drugmakers warn NHS clawback tax is putting UK at a disadvantage
Drugmakers are growing frustrated with the National Health Service after a clawback tax unexpectedly soared, with ...
Living the New York dream?
The city of constant reinvention that has drawn women in search of a new life is captured in a stunning new graphic novel — ...
Who’s afraid of Melania Trump?
For Trump, who likes to burnish his strongman image with a veneer of inviolable masculinity and power, Melania makes an ...
‘Northern Lights’ at Fondation Beyeler — a stirring show of winter landscapes
From Edvard Munch to Emily Carr, artists both familiar and forgotten light up this exhibition of paintings of the far north ...
Chimney sweeps and mouse men should stigmatise the rest of us
If you will forgive the Victoriana kitsch opening: spare a thought for the humble chimney sweep . Not only frozen in the ...
Supercomputers: the new superpower status symbol
Today, there is a new superpower status symbol: data centres. The latest bid for digital supremacy is Stargate. This mammoth ...
Most Gen Z say Bank of Mum and Dad gifts come ‘with strings attached’
Fifty-six per cent of the 2,000 Gen Z adults polled said financial gifts from their parents came with conditions or restrictions, which might include seeing entrepreneurial children’s business plans, ...