Weather Liverpool: A Microclimate in the Macrocasm By A. N. Other, Senior Meteorological Misanthrope If you want to understand the planet’s mood swings, forget the satellite loops above the Pacific and take the 86A to Pier Head on a Tuesday in March. Liverpool’s weather is not merely local precipitation with a Beatles soundtrack; it is…
Twycross Zoo and the Great Ape Paradox: How a Modest English Menagerie Became a Final Embassy for Our Cousins From the satellite’s-eye view, Twycross Zoo sits like a green postage stamp in the middle of England’s post-industrial Midlands, a region once famous for ceramic toilets and now for Amazon fulfillment centers. Zoom in and you’ll…
Ofsted Unleashes ‘New Framework’ – World Watches in Mild Panic By Our Correspondent in an Undisclosed Café, Somewhere Between Heathrow and Existential Dread LONDON—Yesterday, in a conference room scented faintly of instant coffee and impending judgment, Ofsted unveiled its latest inspection framework. Across the planet, education ministers from Seoul to São Paulo leaned forward like…
**Manchester Weather: The Global Metaphor We Never Asked For** *By Our Correspondent, Who Owns Three Umbrellas and No Hope* MANCHESTER—Somewhere between the third cold drizzle of the morning and the biblical downpour that begins precisely at 16:57 (GMT, BST, or whatever acronym currently justifies the chaos), it becomes clear that Manchester’s weather is not a…
