Cover story: a distant war, a nearby bowl
Each week this paper picks one large subject from the human world and looks at it from the position of an animal. The first is war — not the war on the battlefield, but the part of it that is left by the time it reaches the edge of the feeding bowl.
Since its founding, the principle of this paper has been: report on humans, do not comment on human positions. From this issue onwards, we pick one la……