This Side of the Pond

Well here’s a thing I wasn’t expecting to say: the mystery of the yeti has been solved. The answer is not disappointing, either, because it turns out there really have been yetis wandering the Himalayan woods all along.

Arguably the most surprising thing is that the person who revealed the solution has known what a yeti is for half a century. You’d need to be familiar with Sir David Attenborough, the man who basically invented the nature documentary, for that to make sense.

Sir David is a national treasure, voted by the UK public among the hundred greatest Britons to have ever lived....