Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
TODAY’S pub quiz question is what is Europe’s biggest land mammal? Give yourself a point if you went for the European bison or the European wood bison (Bison bonasus). Just half a point if you gave it one of its colloquial names such as the wisent, or the zubr.
This huge buffalo-like species can weigh up three-quarters of a ton. It isn’t the same species you see in cowboy films.
That one is the American bison (Bison bison). These are more usually known as buffalo. Actually buffalo and bison are two different types of animals.
Innovation in biotechnology is changing how we conceive of meat, say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
In his fortnightly Borderlands column, MARK SEDDON visits overgrown forts along Offa’s Dyke and reflects on wars past and present



