Physics
Time flies, relatively speaking
The older you are, the quicker you count out a minute
Physicist could be fired over ‘All Lives Matter’ tweet
Laser scientist with US Defence contract is the latest victim of the culture war
Dark matters
Academics in this country need to allow new ideas rather than orthodoxy and group-think
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
