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By Harry Holmes2021-04-09T11:02:00+01:00 With Covid and Brexit forcing the UK to re-examine its food security, ‘farm cities’ and towns, from Tokyo to Todmorden, could provide a sustainable model for communities to feed themselves Tokyo is a king of modern-day mega cities. Majestic skyscrapers, a sophisticated transport network, and almost 40 million residents dwell within its urban sprawl. A triumphal metropolis, most certainly. A bucolic paradise… perhaps not. But look a little closer and a more nuanced picture emerges. Nestled in among the skyscrapers and concrete avenues lies a poten...

A Gallery of Know-It-Alls Epistemology, the theory and study of knowledge and how it is acquired, is unsatisfactory on the subject of the polymath, or the person of extraordinarily wide-ranging knowledge. Nor is it very helpful about what is required to be learned, or cultured, or knowledgeable, or even educated. May one call oneself learned without having ancient Greek and Latin, cultured without being able to read music, knowledgeable without knowing the history of China? As for being educated, given the state of the contemporary university outside its scientific departments, no one today c...

A MAN who claimed he had gone out driving in his van when a candle had exploded at his home later crashed at the Posthouse Roundabout near Chester.

A MAN who claimed he had gone out driving in his van when a candle had exploded at his home later crashed at the Posthouse Roundabout near Chester.

AN Ellesmere Port man celebrating a successful day of business drove to the shop to get a bottle of wine – but had already been drinking.