NicaraguaObituaryTomás Borge obituaryOne of the founders of the Sandinista guerrilla movement that overthrew the Somoza family dictatorship in NicaraguaTomás Borge Martínez, who has died aged 81, was one of the founders of the Sandinista guerrilla movement that in July 1979 overthrew the Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua. Revered by his followers, hated and feared by his opponents, Borge embodied many of the contradictions at the heart of the Sandinista revolution. Read More...
SausagesNew research says that people who eat processed meat have an increased risk of an early death. Does this mean we have to give up sausages – or will we be OK if we buy posh bangers and grill rather than fry them?Sausages have never been known as the healthiest food. But what makes them so dangerous?The things that are causing all the fuss are chemicals called nitrites and nitrates, which once in the body can be converted into cancer-causing compounds. Read More...
FictionReviewSusan Fletcher's novel of the Jacobite rebellion makes Clare Clark look at the world afreshWith Eve Green, which won the Whitbread first novel prize, and the subsequent Oystercatchers, Susan Fletcher has built a reputation for her complex female narrators and for the luminous poetry of her prose. With Corrag she steps 300 years into the past, but these twin trademarks are as much in evidence as ever.
The novel takes as its starting point the massacre of Glencoe when, on a winter's dawn in 1692, William III's redcoats brutally slaughtered 32 of the MacDonald clan, including women and children. Read More...
