Choosing a chancellor of Cambridge is no joke Opinion Cambridge must choose a chancellor who enhances its reputation without politicising or making a mockery of the role, and Lord Browne is emerging as the most credible candidate to do so, says Eliot Wilson Our leaders like to speak of the United Kingdom “punching above its weight”. For at least 80 years, it has been [...]
Seeing the wood for the trees: Why we shouldn’t mourn every felled oak Trees are emotive, as the furore over the Toby Carvery oak and the Sycamore gap prove. But a political obsession with planting trees is getting in the way of proper maintenance of our ancient woodland, says David Cracknell It was last week’s row over the Toby Carvery oak that got me thinking again about the [...]