|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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Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time
on 13 July | 2026Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids – now a sugar found in raspberries has been spotted in a cosmic cloud nearly 27 light years away
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Shifts in the jet stream are behind Europe’s long heatwaves
on 13 July | 2026Two types of jet stream patterns seem to be causing persistent heat domes over Europe, with big questions for the future
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Game that reduces dementia risk may clear amyloid from men’s brains
on 13 July | 2026Playing a mental speed-training game seems to help the brain clear a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease in men, but may work in women through different mechanisms
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Four children with terminal brain cancer saved by new cell therapy
on 13 July | 2026An experimental immunotherapy has beaten aggressive brain tumours in a handful of children, and a personalised version is now being tested on more patients
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UN space database aimed at easing global tensions is mysteriously down
on 10 July | 2026A list of global space launches designed to calm cold war tensions and promote transparency has been missing from the UN's website for months
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Global warming already causing crop losses of over $20 billion a year
on 10 July | 2026Climate change is already having a big impact on crop yields, and the subsequent financial losses will continue to rise as the world keeps warming
|General
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Trump reinstates Iran port blockade and vows 20%...
on 13 July | 2026 at 21:46The US president also says Washington will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Lindsey Graham's sister chosen as replacement...
on 13 July | 2026 at 21:37The South Carolina governor chose the senator's little sister to serve out the rest of his term after Graham's death on Saturday.
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Hungary parliament votes to remove president from...
on 13 July | 2026 at 20:39Tamás Sulyok was widely seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Viktor Orbán, who lost power in April after 16 years.
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Wildfire raging south of Paris could have been...
on 13 July | 2026 at 20:15The interior minister has said the fire near Paris could have been set deliberately and two people have been arrested.
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Man wanted in connection with murder arrested in...
on 13 July | 2026 at 19:49The body of Jamey Carney was discovered at a property in Killarney, County Kerry, last week.
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Briton tells of surviving Spain wildfire in car...
on 13 July | 2026 at 17:31Malcolm Timbrell's wife and their friends are thought to have died when a devastating wildfire tore through their village in Spain.
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Watch: Horses evacuated as fire approaches riding...
on 13 July | 2026 at 16:28The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as of 'exceptional scale', continues to rage for the second day.
“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]
