Good News!*
The century-old book series that predicted a wild and wonderful future.
Good-news stories you didn’t hear about in 2023.
Solar-powered boats are traversing the Amazon.
Jakarta is sinking into the sea.
How skiing priced out the middle classes.
How Madagascar’s queen helped define Britain’s.
Mog’s Christmas. Who knew that the author Matthew Kneale (a few of whose novels I’ve very much enjoyed) is the son of the British children’s author Judith Kerr of Mog and The Tiger Who Came to Tea fame? And not only of her, but also of Nigel Kneale, the creator of Quatermass? What an accomplished family.
Cleveland: We’re not Detroit! Still!
*Not all good news.