|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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The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon
on 7 April | 2026The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission have captured extraordinary views of the moon, including close-ups of the far side and a breathtaking solar eclipse
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Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system
on 7 April | 2026Amplifying the brain's waste disposal system seems to clear a substance that drives migraines, relieving some of the pain associated with the condition
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Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions?
on 7 April | 2026Anaerobic digesters converting manure to biogas reduce methane emissions from livestock, but incentives for them have encouraged factory farms to get bigger
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The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon
on 7 April | 2026Four NASA astronauts have now travelled further from Earth than any humans before them, as they flew around the moon during the Artemis II mission on 6 April
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Novel approach to clearing brain waste shows promise for Alzheimer's
on 6 April | 2026Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, with a study now suggesting that a novel approach eases brain deficits and symptoms associated with the condition
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We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time
on 3 April | 2026An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first theorised more than 30 years ago
|General
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Oil prices plunge and shares jump on US-Iran...
on 8 April | 2026 at 08:15Crude prices tumbled by as much as 15% on the conditional pause but is higher than before the war.
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How Pakistan helped secure a fragile ceasefire...
on 8 April | 2026 at 05:03Pakistan has a historic relationship with Iran, but an agreement was far from certain, writes the BBC’s Caroline Davies
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Iran ceasefire deal gives Trump a way out of war...
on 8 April | 2026 at 03:30The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.
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What we know about the two-week ceasefire between...
on 8 April | 2026 at 02:58The provisional truce comes more than a month after the US and Israel launched coordinated attacks on Iran.
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Trump-backed Republican Clay Fuller wins election...
on 8 April | 2026 at 02:33He will serve out the rest of Marjorie Taylor Greene's term, which ends in January 2027.
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US journalist Shelly Kittleson released after...
on 8 April | 2026 at 01:44US officials say they are now "working to support her safe departure from Iraq".
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Plan to scrap presidential elections puts...
on 7 April | 2026 at 23:15The ruling party has unveiled a draft law that strips voters of the chance to elect the president.
“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]
