Think about how many people you know who own a top of the range shiny Scandiwegian fridge which opens to reveal a curling sandwich, a dead tomato and some curdling milk.

By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.

Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice.

From these causes result that imperfect transparency, and also that opalesque iridescence, which we now see in old glass, and which we long to see restored.