Henry, how are things down there?’ A shaky live picture came on to the screen, and I stopped for a moment to watch. Behind ...

Fall of Western Civilisation (was it really less than a month ago?) with the mass migration from TwiXXtit of many of its more ...

Apologies, this will be obvious to some, but I have seen enough so-so images on social media to convince me there are others ...

In the UK you can find Christmas foodstuffs appearing in shops from October, maybe even earlier. High Streets will put up ...

My recent post on Tolkien got me thinking about some more current issues. There are others who are better guides to Tolkien’s moral philosophy than I. However, the person who finally convinced me, ...

My recent post on Tolkien got me thinking about some more current issues. There are others who are better guides to Tolkien’s moral philosophy than I. However, the person who finally convinced me, ...

I am Master of Churchill College, Cambridge and a professor emeritus of physics in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge; my research was on soft matter and biological physics. I ...

I was born under a wandering star in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho in the Victoria Maternity Hospital in Barnet, London in 1962. I attended various schools including Whitgift ...

Bluesky has grown both in the range of interesting people and posts there and in overall numbers (see this counter – it’s approaching 23mn users at the time of writing). It feels like it’s the ...

I’ve argued elsewhere that one of the most important themes in Tolkien’s work is loss. Loss of technological ability, loss of lifespan, loss of population, loss of — well, let’s not put too fine a ...