|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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It’s about to get a lot harder to keep countries honest about climate change
on 19 October | 2026A row over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts
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Bottlenose whales may look after each other when they’re sick
on 19 October | 2026Northern bottlenose whales are more likely to stick together when individuals are poorly or emaciated
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Discovery of T. rex’s cousin upends our understanding of tyrannosaur evolution
on 19 October | 2026A dinosaur that is new to science has features of both subfamilies of the tyrannosaur group, complicating our understanding of how they evolved
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Error-correction record pushes quantum computers closer to usefulness
on 19 October | 2026Useful quantum computers will have to use many “logical qubits” as their computational building blocks, and researchers just broke the record for how reliable they can be
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El Niño is dramatically increasing sea levels – how bad could it get?
on 19 October | 2026El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen, there could be coastal flooding from Alaska to Chile
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Archaeologists are uncovering the meaning of a unique rock art site
on 19 October | 2026Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues about how engravings of animals were seen by prehistoric hunter-gatherers
|General
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Deadly fire at Canada military base moved a...
on 20 October | 2026 at 01:52The blaze that killed four men and injured dozens of others spread with alarming speed, accounts suggest.
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'Our worst nightmare': Threats to Australian...
on 20 October | 2026 at 01:24In the wake of the apparent attack on MP Helen Haines, MPs have described locking their office doors, and scanning every crowd for potential threats.
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US church on frontline of battle against drug...
on 20 October | 2026 at 00:02Synthetic opioids like fentanyl are more powerful and in plentiful supply, and they have transformed the drugs landscape.
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Morocco's first female prime minister caught...
on 19 October | 2026 at 23:30Will Fatima El Mansouri advance women’s rights amid religious and political barriers?
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Five ways El Niño is affecting the weather...
on 19 October | 2026 at 23:08As the strongest El Niño on record continues to intensify, what impacts on weather patterns are already being felt across the globe? Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at the evidence.
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In pictures: Dussehra celebrated across India as...
on 19 October | 2026 at 23:04The festival, which commemorates the triumph of good over evil, is celebrated with different rituals across India.
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Clean up begins after French riots but police...
on 19 October | 2026 at 21:30Outside of Paris, Marseille saw some of the worst damage, with shop owners reporting more than 600 premises having been looted.
“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
|THE CIRCUS
Where the spectacle grows, but the soul stays pure. Driven by driving talent, engineering brilliance, and the pursuit of the limit.
Ayrton Senna embodied the purity of racing; fearless, intuitive, and utterly committed to the craft. His legacy isn’t just in his victories, but in the emotional depth he brought to the sport.
Professor Sid Watkins, Formula One’s pioneering medical voice, stood as Senna’s guardian and friend. Their relationship shaped modern motorsport safety, and Watkins’ work ensured that Senna’s impact extended far beyond the cockpit.