|RECENT SKETCHES & ESSAYS
|RECENT SKETCHES & ESSAYS
Slow Horses: Slow-Burn Rebuttal
★★★★☆ [See-Saw Films Apple TV+] Slow Horses arrives like a corrective: a spy...
When Representation Masks Prejudice
Is it reasonable to expect marketing campaigns to reflect the demographics of...
Becoming a Retail Impresario
For years my wife encouraged me to commercialise my art and designs, starting...
Thinking with Machines
I feel genuinely privileged to be alive in this era. The technological leaps...
The Polite Exclusion of Home
I grew up in Birmingham during my formative years. Not inner‑city Birmingham,...
From Stutter to Boom
James Earl Jones Dies at 93 January 17th 1931 - September 9th 2024 James Earl...
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 they...
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 of...
From Stutter to Boom
James Earl Jones Dies at 93 January 17th 1931 - September 9th 2024 James Earl Jones, the legendary...
“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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The weirdness of neutrinos could completely rewrite particle physics
on 1 July | 2026A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle physics
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A type of fibre that stimulates GLP-1 release approved for use in food
on 1 July | 2026A form of fibre that boosts the release of the hunger-reducing hormone GLP-1 has been approved as safe by a European regulator, and could be added to foods within a year
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Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible
on 1 July | 2026Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but new modelling suggests the weakening of the current could be reversed if CO2 levels come back down
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The world's fastest spider tops 3.5 metres per second
on 30 June | 2026The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary history influence spiders’ running speed
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The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now
on 30 June | 2026The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest camera ever built to map the solar system, the galaxy and beyond
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Babies are born with the neural foundations for maths
on 30 June | 2026Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers
|General
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Businessman goes on trial over murder of Maltese...
on 1 July | 2026 at 17:15Yorgen Fenech denies any involvement in the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.
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Man guilty of attempted murder of three children...
on 1 July | 2026 at 16:59Riad Bouchaker denied attempting to murder three children and assaulting four other people on 23 November 2023.
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Syria's president names final 70 lawmakers to new...
on 1 July | 2026 at 16:44Fifteen women are appointed, after only six female candidates were selected by regional electoral colleges last October.
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Fire kills five at Antwerp apartment block
on 1 July | 2026 at 16:12A man was seen clambering through a window to escape black smoke in the block where some 200 people live.
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Controversial bishops ordained as Pope warns of...
on 1 July | 2026 at 16:10Thousands of worshippers attended a ceremony in the Swiss Alps as part of the breakaway Society of Saint Pius X.
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Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first...
on 1 July | 2026 at 16:04The president's crypto income far outpaces his earnings from real estate and Trump-themed items such as watches.
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'Time for him to pay' - Carroll calls on Trump to...
on 1 July | 2026 at 15:48The writer's lawyers say Trump wants to delay paying the damages awarded by a jury that found the president liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
Simone de Beauvoir
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
BELGIAN GP [Spa-Francorchamps]
