Mark Solomons

Stag don’t: Britain’s deer problem is out of control

7 October 2023 5:30 pm

Britain’s annual wildlife spectacular is just warming up. From the Highlands to the New Forest, the raucous bellowing of amorous…

Get a grip, YouTube hustlers. Don’t watch football with the camera on

24 September 2023 3:00 pm

Once upon a time, football fans used to come home from seeing their side lose, and they would shrug their…

Newts

19 August 2023 9:00 am

Why can’t football pundits be more like cricket commentators?

2 August 2023 12:44 am

For the armchair sports fan, there is some reassurance as the sun sets on another fabulous Ashes contest: the football…

Should Oppenheimer have been played by a Jewish actor?

29 July 2023 2:07 am

Cillian Murphy is a blue-eyed Irishman with cheekbones you could slice salt beef on but, sorry David Baddiel, as far…

Readers of Ulysses have a right to be smug

16 June 2023 10:55 pm

Happy Bloomsday everybody. Today, 16 June, is the day on which the events of James Joyce’s epic novel, Ulysses, is set…

Hornets

23 July 2022 9:00 am

There’s surely not a more despised creature in Britain than the hornet. They have long been viewed as yellow jacketed…

Will Sizewell C see off the avocet?

14 August 2021 9:00 am

There are many reasons why birds disappear — and why they return. The avocet, however, is probably the only one…

Why it’s boom time for bitterns

19 June 2021 9:00 am

Bitterns are booming, both literally and metaphorically. These handsome brown birds from the heron family make a noise quite unlike…

Why egrets keep making headlines

13 March 2021 9:00 am

There’s an unwritten rule in newspaper journalism that any story about egrets must have one of two headlines. Either ‘no…

Mothing is a serious business

12 December 2020 9:00 am

As darkness falls, a group of mainly middle-aged men set up traps of various shapes and sizes — some sophisticated…