Culture

John Mitchinson explores the enduring fascination with the man who was asked to send Jesus to his death

John Mitchinson explores how the horrors of the Holodomor still underpin Ukrainian identity

John Mitchinson explores why our closest cousins were wrongly defamed as boorish, rude stupid louts

John Mitchinson explains why gazing out of his window or at his computer screen brings him wonderment at an invention we spend little time observing

John Mitchinson explains why our relationship with these fascinating creatures is such a depressing one

If humans can’t yet hibernate, could we approach something like the ‘torpor’ that bears and other larger mammals practice? asks John Mitchinson

With emails, text messages and WhatsApp groups now a dominant feature of all our lives, John Mitchinson considers the enduring qualities of a more humble form of social communication

John Mitchinson explores the lessons in the inventor, philosopher and mathematician’s ‘doing more with less’ philosophy

John Mitchinson makes the case for those who have lived and died by their own rules, flying in the face of conventionality 

John Mitchinson charts a brief history of British food and the emergence of a humble meal enjoyed billions of times each year

John Mitchinson unearths some of the juiciest incidents turning the gossip mills of times past

John Mitchinson explains why we should listen to the farmers and why their plight deserves our attention

John Mitchinson explores the problematic legacy of one of the founding fathers of English radicalism

John Mitchinson explores the connection between liberty and fair play

John Mitchinson explores how the mental structures that enabled slavery are still alive and thriving in the United States today