Can you justify your job title? (BBC news online)
While some achieve absurd job titles all by themselves, others have absurdity thrust upon them.
Continue Reading Add comment February 26th, 2010
How do you stop a car with a jammed accelerator? (BBC news online)
The recall of thousands of Toyotas with potentially faulty pedals raises a terrifying scenario – what should you do if the accelerator on your car jams?
Continue Reading February 4th, 2010
The solidarity of street smokers (BBC news online)
Huddles of street smokers outside office doorways could be extinguished under new public health plans. But it could also put an end to the comradeship of pavement puffers.
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The cold, physical chess (Financial Times magazine)
There are few more visceral mindgames for the competitor than swordplay, whose conventions and violent history seem so far removed from modern life.
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Smeared scientists must still mend their ways (Financial Times)
Climate naysayers sent out a collective whoop of delight. E-mails hacked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit had proved that the theory of man-made climate change was a scientific conspiracy.
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Definitely maybe (Financial Times magazine)
Climate scientists are like an exotic tribe – fascinating, sometimes hard to understand and rarely visited.
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Betting the farm against Mugabe (BBC news online)
Born and raised in Britain, Ben Freeth has become one of a handful of farmers in Zimbabwe to resist the seizure of his land.
Continue Reading October 21st, 2009
Let’s hear it for the generalist journalist (The Tablet)
It’s a paradox that would bother Lord Reith or William Russell were they alive today.
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Ladies’ man (BBC news online)
It’s 10 years since the death of Alan Clark – a politician who found distinction in his diary style, if not his career.
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Escape from Alcatraz (Sunday Times)
A mile and a half across the bay, lies the prize of San Francisco – a thicket of skyscrapers shimmering in the early morning haze.
Continue Reading Add comment August 16th, 2009
