Stephen Hawking
Making scientific history
In 1993 William Waldegrave, the science minister, was looking into a project being planned on the continent. Cern, the European…
Follow the science
It is, of course, not unknown for a man to become famous with the support of his family — and,…
All in the mind
You don’t expect to be brought close to tears by the Reith Lectures, which are after all at the most…
Long life
It’s hard to turn on the television nowadays without being shown a robot. It might be looking like a grasshopper…
And then there were four
Where were you when you heard that Zayn Malik had left One Direction? No, me neither, but as my teenage…
Barometer
Royally paid Staff at Windsor Castle were balloted in strike action over pay. What can you earn in the royal…
The physics widow
What’s missing from Stephen Hawking’s hagiographic new biopic
Diary
Last October, in these very pages, I wrote with what is now annoying prescience, ‘Like almost everyone else in the…
