It is a tantalising start to a diary entry. By 1940 Woolf was a celebrated writer whose books, “Mrs Dalloway” and “To the Lighthouse”, had changed English literature. What tack, then, woul ...

If anything, 2024 taught us to expect the unbelievable, says Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist magazine, and we can expect more of the same this year. Every year, the magazine looked at ...