Michael Anderson

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Anthony Hopkins and and Jonathan Pryce in The Two Popes
The Two Popes: one giant leap of faith

The world has largely forgotten Morris West and the 1968 adaptation of his bestseller The Shoes of the Fisherman. Yet that Michael Anderson film, sta(...)

Allotments with runner beans. Illustration: Michael Viney
There is something touching and subversive about vegans

The decades of this column have seen notable shifts towards more eco-friendly attitudes to food. Growing it organically has lost most of its old eccen(...)

Avadel is a speciality pharmaceutical company. Photograph: iStock
Avadel chief executive resigns suddenly

The chief executive of Dublin-headquartered Avadel Pharmaceuticals has resigned, while the company’s chief operating officer has been named as his int(...)

California governor Jerry Brown ordered the state’s first mandatory water cuts on April 1st, the day when the annual measurement of the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which is critical to the state’s water supply, had nothing to measure. Photograph: Michael Nelson/EPA
California droughts worsen as US fears new ‘Dust Bowl’

Rarely has a measuring stick proven so effective at making a point. It was April Fool’s Day but this was no joke. Frank Gehrke, chief snow surveyor at(...)