Lions are unique among cats being the only ones who are fully social. I have often wondered whether this developed as a response to sharing the plains of Africa with our hominid ancestors. I shall explore this, and other animal adaptions to humans in my upcoming book due out later this year.

Calling all zoos in the Northern hemisphere, I fear one of your penguins may have been kidnapped.

Seriously, does anyone actually believe that the 11th Airborne Division, arctic warfare specialists and Paratroopers have been activated for use in Minnesota? This is the USA's core cold weather fighting force not a peacekeeping brigade.

Watching Pluribus, I felt like I’d spent a week with Rhea Seehorn. No surprise the Golden Globes noticed.

Meanwhile everyone else obeys the hive, unquestioning, as certainty quietly replaces judgement.

An intentional mirror to how we behave?

No surprise that Andor got no recognition at the Golden Globe Awards.

Awards bodies are comfortable with political drama at a safe distance, less so when it looks uncomfortably like the present.