Jason Goodwin

The bliss of proper bread

5 September 2020 9:00 am

I cannot claim the gift of prophecy, but early this year — before lockdown panic-buying and the warnings of a…

Consigned to a living tomb: Aziz BineBine endures 18 years in a subterranean prison

11 April 2020 9:00 am

Imagine being on indefinite lockdown, imprisoned in a dark, underground, 6’ x 12’ cell, freezing in winter, boiling in summer…

Pangolins are being blamed for coronavirus – and I’m sorry for eating one

15 February 2020 9:00 am

Is the pangolin having its revenge?

One of the ‘Cottingley hoax’ photographs, the work of two young girls in 1917, which famously hoodwinked Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle really away with the fairies?

27 January 2018 9:00 am

When this survey of British fairydom arrived I turned to the chapter on Dorset to read about the little people…

A badger eats, squats, thieves. But should we cull them?

19 October 2013 9:00 am

Lord Arran was responsible for the bill to legalise homosexuality and a bill to protect badgers from gassing and terrier-baiting.…