Irregular: The butterfly effect

Spread your wings

Picture of Nelumbo nucifera (lotus flower) and Sagittaria trifolia from Xian’e Changchun Album, Giuseppe Castiglione, c. 1722-35, album leaf, ink and colours on silk, National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Hello from Paris,

In this edition of Irregular, let’s take a step back and look at one of the stranger truths of international affairs: how events in far-flun…