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The joy of physics
How a book on relativity and quantum theory became a surprise hit
Proof and Belief
On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…
Proof and Belief
On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…
Mrs Badgery
Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…
Proof and Belief
On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…
Mrs Badgery
Wilkie Collins’s ‘Mrs Badgery’, rarely seen since its first publication in Dickens’s Household Words magazine in September 1857, is an…
Silent strongman Sergey Shoigu is the real force behind Russia’s military aggression
Sergey Shoigu is the real force behind Putin’s military aggression
Cooler heads
The age of climate realism is upon us
Strange young things
Why are so many Conservative activists so noxious?
The real victims of climate change
In trying to protect ‘our grandchildren’ from climate change, politicians are hurting the poor. They shouldn’t
Send in the street pastors
Heroic volunteers are bringing down crime in cities across Britain
Could I have prevented a Kray murder?
Could I have prevented a Kray murder?
The Corbyn crack-up
What life is like inside the Labour party right now
Christmas lists
William Brown had the right idea about Christmas lists. Under the heading ‘Things I Want for Christmas’, he requests: a…
Coffee with Annie
I am thinking about you Annie now that you are no longer a few miles of motorway and a couple…
Coffee with Annie
I am thinking about you Annie now that you are no longer a few miles of motorway and a couple…
Coffee with Annie
I am thinking about you Annie now that you are no longer a few miles of motorway and a couple…
The pretend war: bombing Isil won’t solve the problem
Britain, France and America are in a protracted fight against Islamic radicalism. Pity our leaders have no idea how to win it
Military action against Isis needs a coherent strategy. . . . here it is
Military action against Isis needs a coherent strategy, says a former senior commander in the British army
‘They pull a gun, you pull a hashtag’ – the ridiculous debate over what to call Isil
We should worry less about what to call Isis, and more about how to fight them
What Muslims think
Polls suggesting that they sympathise with terrorists are misleading
Corbyn’s defence
The Labour leader’s line on Syria is more principled and more forward-looking than the Prime Minister’s
‘I was tossed out of the tribe’: climate scientist Judith Curry interviewed
Meet Professor Judith Curry, the sceptical climate scientist rarely quoted in Britain’s media
How hard should we fight Black Friday?
Should we make peace with this imported festival of consumerism?
Sir Ian Botham is a hero – and a fool
Mark Mason 28 November 2015 9:00 am
In 1981, when I was ten and Ian Botham was 26, I thought he was God. Now, the week after…