They have become the reluctant pioneers, the lab rats of learning
Fake-news grannies spread virus doom
Research uncovers a sinister meme-seeding trend
News wall: Trump’s taxes
"Taxes are the price of civilization"
Diary: 25-27 September
Three days that didn't quite shake the world
News wall: Rishi Sunak
Chancellor takes pole position
Diary: 22-24 September
Three days that didn’t change the world, exactly
Diary snapshot: Endemic & epidemic
Chickenpox is endemic in the United Kingdom, but malaria is not...
Diary snapshot: Traffic cones
Perhaps the cone was not following the boat, but following me
News wall: Banksy
Street artist loses two-year legal battle over trademarks
Diary snapshot: Surrealism
Unnerving, illogical scenes juxtaposed with strange creatures and everyday objects
News wall: Harold Evans
I'd sit every day marvelling at what simple words put together in the right way could do
Diary snapshot: That guilty feeling
I just presumed I was to blame
Backyard holiday: Regents Canal, London
Mothers with buggies jostled with militant cyclists. Idle students lolled on the grassy verges
News wall: Epidemiology
The distinction between "epidemic" and "endemic" was first drawn by Hippocrates
Diary: 15-21 September
Brexit bust-up breaks new ground, but Covid continues to cause chaos
News wall: Modern Man just got 35,000 years older
New research shows earlier arrival in Saudi Arabia
News wall: Poland in LGBT clash with EU
Around 80 towns declare themselves “LGBT-free”
Diary snapshot: The birch tree
In Celtic cultures, the birch symbolises growth, renewal, stability, initiation, and adaptability
Diary snapshot: Boris’s Kitchen-sink anarchy
The word anarchy was first used in 1539, meaning "an absence of government"
Art: Ted Bolt Says Relax, A Portrait
I chose to make a portrait of someone I have never even seen
Billy's Scrapbook 