In the words of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed Central Park in New York, parks are the “lungs” or the “soul of the city”. They give city dwellers room to breathe—literally ...

John Prescott, who died on 20th November at the age of 86, was not given to philosophy, nor to philosophers. In 2005, when the cerebral David Miliband was appointed as a minister in Prescott’s office ...