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A British scientist is facing calls to step down from two key inquiries into the origins of Covid-19 after leading the global battle to dismiss suggestions that it might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory linked to his charity. Peter Daszak’s organisation channelled cash to Wuhan scientists at the centre of growing concerns over a cover-up – and also collaborated on the sort of cutting-edge experiments on coronaviruses banned for several years in the United States for fear of sparking a pandemic. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has been carrying out this risky research on bat viruses s...

OPINION: Wildlife television as we know it was constructed around Attenborough. Take him away and the whole thing needs to be reinvented.

verti and saalvai and in a pair of slippers, while the other Tamil master Mr Shaithananthan – when I last heard he was in Canada – wore white trousers a shirt and closed shoes. I must have been about 14-years old when Vinasi decided to unload a line from John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies that got me into a bit of a panic, before he returned his attention to Silapathikram or its antithesis Manimehali or whatever he was trying to drum into our thick skulls. I cannot locate the line but it seems Ruskin spoke of “Books of the moment and books of all time”. I was a decent enough reader...

Better Things on Hulu—if you have children, this is a must.  The last book I read was Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin, which takes place during the German occupation of Paris. And Ronan Farrow’s book  Catch and Kill. I also enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, and Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden—a must-read for anyone in the jewelry business. But my absolute favorite TV is escapism, and I’ve already watched all the episodes twice of The Durrells in Corfu, based on Gerald Durrell’s trilogy,

Comforting, feel-good TV should be for life, not just for Christmas As the success of All Creatures Great And Small has shown, there's nothing we love more than watching something sentimental and uplifting 23 December 2020 • 5:51pm  What does this mean to you? “I am playing the right notes – but not necessarily in the right order.” If that iconic quotation doesn’t ring any bells, you will probably be happy viewing The Queen’s Gambit or binge watching Line of Duty this Christmas – but many of us will be overwhelmed by a wave of nostalgia, as we remember the whole family sitting ...