|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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Test moderators use AI-generated writing to judge literacy standards
on 14 August | 2026To cut the cost of key stage 2 assessments, a UK government project proposes to use scripts generated by ChatGPT instead of real children's writing as examples supplied to moderators who check that grades are awarded fairly
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THC in cannabis may reduce nightmares in people with PTSD
on 14 August | 2026A drug made up of THC, the main psychoactive component of cannabis, reduced the severity and incidence of nightmares in people with PTSD
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Fishers detonate a bomb every hour on one Indonesian coral reef
on 14 August | 2026The use of explosives to kill fish is widespread across the tropics, and acoustic monitoring in an Indonesian archipelago detected more than 3500 explosions in 483 days
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How bad is the UK drought and how long will it continue?
on 14 August | 2026Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions, resulting in restrictions on water use in many areas and severe wildfires – here's how it's affecting farming, wildlife and trees
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Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution
on 14 August | 2026A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times, which may have influenced human evolution
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‘Remarkable’ discovery upends our understanding of how brains store memories
on 13 August | 2026Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our knowledge of memory in the mammalian brain
|General
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ballroom work...
on 14 August | 2026 at 15:10Forcing the US president to go "hat-in-hand to Congress" for permission would be "dangerous", the administration says.
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Moment €9m worth of art stolen from Italy museum
on 14 August | 2026 at 14:56Police released the CCTV footage after the art, which was stolen in March, was recovered.
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Builders unearth €9m gold stash sealed in walls...
on 14 August | 2026 at 13:18Construction workers found the stash in the walls of a cellar while drilling to lay sewage pipes.
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Instagram accounts fuelling Ceuta crisis with...
on 14 August | 2026 at 12:19BBC's Top Comment podcast has found a network of Instagram profiles glamourising the swim around the Morocco-Ceuta border fence.
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Presidential vote counting halted in Zambia over...
on 14 August | 2026 at 11:37The electoral commission said violence had "resulted in the theft of marked ballot papers".
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Stolen Matisse artworks recovered by police in...
on 14 August | 2026 at 10:55A man is arrested after eight works by the French artist are found at a home in greater São Paulo.
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'Unprecedented' rain in Japan kills eight people
on 14 August | 2026 at 10:36The storm cut power to more than 20,000 households and left 7,000 people stranded at Tokyo's Narita airport.
“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.