Let’s look on the bright side. As someone whose home is in the center of London, I have to admit that cities have become much more pleasant to live in since lockdown. There’s less noise, less traffic, less pollution. Same…

When Ralph Waldo Emerson lost a useful amount of his income in the banking panic of 1837, he wrote a poem called “The Humble-bee.” Busy, buzzy Bombus — the Latin name for the bumblebee means buzz or drone — seemed to…