By that time I was going for rides of six or seven miles with Dixon, and the ‘leading-rein’ was a thing of the past.

the end of the world as we know it

In November of last year, China’s state-owned media shared plans for a 60-gigawatt mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR).…The Yarlung Tsangpo is of particular significance, as it represents the body of the goddess Dorje Phagmo, one of the highest incarnations in Tibetan culture.

Wales, too, led by the unshowy but effective Mark Drakeford, has looked far more likely as a candidate for independence than it ever has.