|RECENT SKETCHES & ESSAYS
|RECENT SKETCHES & ESSAYS
Slow Horses: Slow-Burn Rebuttal
★★★★☆ [See-Saw Films Apple TV+] Slow Horses arrives like a corrective: a...
When Representation Masks Prejudice
Is it reasonable to expect marketing campaigns to reflect the demographics...
Becoming a Retail Impresario
For years my wife encouraged me to commercialise my art and designs,...
Thinking with Machines
I feel genuinely privileged to be alive in this era. The technological...
The Polite Exclusion of Home
I grew up in Birmingham during my formative years. Not inner‑city...
From Stutter to Boom
James Earl Jones Dies at 93 January 17th 1931 - September 9th 2024 James...
Slow Horses: Slow-Burn Rebuttal
★★★★☆ [See-Saw Films Apple TV+] Slow Horses arrives like a corrective: a spy drama that chooses...
When Representation Masks Prejudice
Is it reasonable to expect marketing campaigns to reflect the demographics of the population...
Becoming a Retail Impresario
For years my wife encouraged me to commercialise my art and designs, starting with the car...
Thinking with Machines
I feel genuinely privileged to be alive in this era. The technological leaps humanity has made...
The Polite Exclusion of Home
I grew up in Birmingham during my formative years. Not inner‑city Birmingham, not the grey belt...
From Stutter to Boom
James Earl Jones Dies at 93 January 17th 1931 - September 9th 2024 James Earl Jones, the...
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood”
Agatha Christie
“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood”
Agatha Christie
|HAPPENING ELSEWHERE
|Science
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Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current
on 14 November | 2025Greenland’s melt is expected to slow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but research suggests a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet could in some cases prevent it from shutting down
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Cuts and scrapes may be slower to heal in redheads
on 14 November | 2025Mice with the same genetic variant that contributes towards red hair in people were slower to recover from wounds than their black-haired counterparts
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Oldest ever RNA sample recovered from woolly mammoth
on 14 November | 2025RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an animal that died nearly 40,000 years ago
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Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars with no obvious fuel
on 14 November | 2025A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly forming stars, and new observations have only deepened the puzzle
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Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of cosmic creation
on 13 November | 2025The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like
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Why aren't young people having sex any more?
on 13 November | 2025Sexual activity in young people is on the decline, but why? And what's more, should we be worried about what this means for society and the future of the human race?
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
BELGIAN GP [Spa-Francorchamps]
|General
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Trump calls on House Republicans to vote to...
on 17 November | 2025 at 04:36"We have nothing to hide," Trump wrote on Truth Social, after previously fighting a proposal to make more of the Epstein files public.
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Communist and far-right candidates head to Chile...
on 17 November | 2025 at 00:58The Communist Party's Jeanette Jara will face far-right candidate José Antonio Kast in the second round of voting in December.
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The oil pipeline feud testing Canada's global...
on 17 November | 2025 at 00:31The rift between two provinces at odds over a proposed pipeline is straining Canada's unity as it seeks to become an energy superpower.
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Mysterious drones have been spotted at night at...
on 17 November | 2025 at 00:17Drones have been found across Western Europe near airports, military bases and power plants, as part of a suspected programme of 'hybrid warfare'
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Two US marines implicated in killing family in...
on 17 November | 2025 at 00:16New evidence raises doubts about the longest US war crimes investigation of the Iraq war and how US forces are held to account.
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Hackers steal maternity ward CCTV videos in India...
on 17 November | 2025 at 00:00Police say that dozens of videos of pregnant women undergoing medical check-ups were sold on the internet.
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Federal agents launch immigration crackdown in...
on 16 November | 2025 at 18:10Operation "Charlotte's Web" is part of Donald Trump’s attempt to deliver "the largest deportation programme" in US history.
