Seamus Heaney This article is more than 10 years oldSeamus Heaney's last words were 'Noli timere', son tells funeralThis article is more than 10 years oldPoet texted Latin phrase meaning 'don't be afraid' to wife minutes before he died, says Michael HeaneyHis voice quavering, the son of Seamus Heaney has told mourners of his father's final words, minutes before his death.
At a requiem mass in Dublin, crowded with mourners, Michael Heaney described how the poet and Nobel laureate, who died last week at the age of 74, had chosen Latin for the message to his wife, Marie. Read More...
The ObserverWhalesOutrage over fate of Freya the walrus has exposed man’s inability to cope with marine mammals that go aground
In the light of the sad and disputatious fate of Freya, a displaced walrus who had the misfortune to choose Norway as the last stop on her misbegotten tour of Europe (having gone from Northumberland to the Netherlands, where latterly she dozed on a moored navy submarine and raised speculation that she might be making an anti-nuclear protest), it is ironic that the most famous depiction of a walrus in western art, an exquisite drawing by Albrecht Dürer dated 1521 and now in the British Museum, was also slaughtered on a Norwegian shore. Read More...
OpinionPolitics This article is more than 3 years oldWhy do politicians keep telling us they're 'listening'?This article is more than 3 years oldImogen West-KnightsOn Black Lives Matter, the climate crisis and Brexit, politicians and brands seem to be all ears. But without action, it’s just talk
You have just been elected leader of the Liberal Democrats. Congratulations! Allow me to be the first to say: we always knew it would be you. Read More...