Opinion

Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, carrying their rows of fruit through the light like carriages at […]

We can no longer pretend that the bridge between generations is invisible, because it stands before us, growing wider every day, harder to cross and harder even to name. Nor can we deny that technology has had its hand in this rupture, since it has not merely changed the tools we use but changed the […]

The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washington usually stops returning calls and the news cycle goes slack for the weekend. It came from the Commerce Department, ran to a few paragraphs, and did something no piece of American paper had ever quite done before. […]

Access to each other has never been easier in an era of a constantly connected world. Yet Sheila J. Simpson, Executive Director of FOCCUS Marriage Ministries, believes that this unprecedented connectivity has introduced a more complex challenge. “We have never been more connected as we are now, yet many people have never felt more unheard,” she says. […]