Downsizing Review: If HG Wells had written Gulliver's Travels

In Downsizing, the threat of overpopulation has inspired an ingenious solution. A pioneering institute in Norway has developed a successful process of human miniaturisation and the benefits are enormous. There could be plenty of room for everyone. Food and fuel supplies would stretch much further and a self-sustaining community of the small makes only a […]

Jonathan Swift: Top 10 facts about the author of Gulliver's Travels

1. The full title of Swift’s work was “Gulliver’s Travels or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships”.  2. As well as being a noted satirist, essayist and pamphleteer, Swift became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.  […]