It is a beautiful autumnal morning, vivid green foliage almost vibrating against deep blue skies. Some trees already start to ...

Stella Rimington Breaking Cover In which our heroine MI5 agent Liz Carlyle battles Russian infiltration, while MI6 across the river hires a Communications Officer, the consequences of which are ...

Notwithstanding inasmuch as which I have been working hard on the first draft of my next book, provisionally entitled The Only Way is Ethics: Moral Philosophy the Modern Way, I have managed to read, ...

Notwithstanding inasmuch as which I have been working hard on the first draft of my next book, provisionally entitled The Only Way is Ethics: Moral Philosophy the Modern Way, I have managed to read, ...

Update (17:00 03 Mar): all members of the UK or international scientific community were invited to indicate their support by signing the letter. The opportunity to do so closed at 17:00 UK time on 03 ...

It‘s a crazy mixed up world, and the snowdrops were early and then the daffs were late but now there‘s tulips, tulips I tell you, showing their red little faces among the hyacinths and the daffs at ...

In 2025, as the century closed its first quarter (where has the time gone?) I read (and listened to) 70-ish books, though the precise number rather depends on how one counts things. Mick Herron’s nine ...

The anticipation of Christmas under commercial pressure has also made it harder to sustain the appropriate sense of alert watchfulness. We as a staff team at St Mary’s Hornsey Rise try to sustain our ...

Elsa Pancirolli: Beasts Before Us Readers with long memories will remember my review of Steve Brusatte’s book The Rise and Reign of Mammals, reviewed here. Pancirolli’s book covers the same ground, ...

My annual selection of favourites from the photographs I took in the past year is now available on Flickr. Do people still use Flickr? I have broken my usual rule of not including family photos ...

Ironically, in the week when my co-authors and I are publishing a paper proposing framework to tackle the reluctance of researchers to publish negative results, one of the most important null results ...

This year I read 64 books, the first time since records began (2014) that the number has exceeded my age in years (I am 62). The total might be inflated, though, as some of the books have been ...