‘Free Palestine!’ says Dave on Twitter. He has a tiny Palestinian flag next to his profile and 39 followers. Dave is from Norwich. I ask him which part he wants to free, to which he replies, ‘all of it,’ and I know instantly that he won’t be able to identify…
It was hot last month. The hottest September on record by a staggering 0.5c. If we want our staycations to get even hotter, we’re taking world-beating measures to guarantee it. Rosebank is a case in point. After the government issued development and production consent to the Rosebank oilfield last month…
Prologue October 1998 – Moscow Smoke drifted in the air like the aftermath of an artillery bombardment, presided over by the ghoulish features of a nightmarish Politburo of the dead and the damned. The busts of Lenin and Felix Dzherzinsky surveyed the nightclub with grim disapproval from their perches high…
07:37 from: +44 7885 912124 ‘This is my new mobile. Pls save 2 ur phone’ 07:39 from: Tremaine ‘OK. u will send instructions from this number?’ Becki frowned at the incoming message on her new phone. The day was running away from her already. There was no time to…
‘THE CORAL IS dying,’ said Daniel to a small and disinterested family of floppy-hatted, baked-skinned tourists. The matriarch’s translucent beach robe shimmied around her wide hips. She took snaps of a coral tank on her iPhone then glanced at her screen, instantly gratified. The chill thrust of the air conditioning…