Book of the dayComics and graphic novelsReviewAn attempt to journey through time goes spectacularly wrong in Clowes’s visually intricate tale of love, murder and revenge
Would you go anywhere near a book described on its back cover as “a cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love”? Yet, while it may have its tongue firmly in its cheek, the blurb is not an inaccurate precis of Daniel Clowes’s latest graphic novel. Read More...
MoneyScotia collapses into bickeringThe arguments get personal as trading in biotech firm's shares is haltedIn the ancient Scottish town of Stirling recriminations have begun over the collapse of Scotia Holdings, one of Britain's oldest biotechnology companies. Trading in Scotia's shares was suspended on Wednesday, after a three-year tailspin in the business's value from £550m to £16m. Within 24 hours, the firm's founder, David Horrobin, was pointing the finger of blame at his successor, the " Read More...
Opioids in AmericaOpioids crisisNaloxone, an overdose-reversing ‘miracle drug’, can let people with an opioid addiction walk away from a near-death experience within minutes
The police chief of the small Kentucky city of Vine Grove knew from heart-rending experience why he needed a vending machine outside his office.
Pain-relief shortage in poorer countries ‘due to stigma of US opioids crisis’Read moreKenneth Mattingly’s daughter was twice brought to the brink of death by heroin and twice pulled back by paramedics carrying an antidote, naloxone. Read More...