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In the aftermath of tragic events like the recent bombing in Manchester, newspapers, television and websites are filled with stories of horror and pain, as well as messages of hope, care and sympathy. Readers are drawn to words, photographs and Read more »
For a very brief moment the words ‘snap election’ seemed to take over from ‘fake news’ as the most common phrase across all media last week. It didn’t last long though, and with so many other words, phrases and terms Read more »
It’s fair to say that the first few months in a new job can be a challenge. There are new people to meet, new processes to learn, new procedures, new structures and a new environment to deal with, and on Read more »
Despite a lifelong interest in sport and an enthusiasm for international competition, be it rugby, football, tennis, Olympics or even the ‘Sport of Kings’, I was surprised at my level of excitement to find out the result of an altogether Read more »
Echoing the theory expounded by Ray Kurzweil in his book, The Singularity is Near, Microsoft’s Bill Gates recently pointed out that change in the coming decades will come faster than the automation that transformed production lines during the 20th century. Read more »
The importance of family planning in an African village may seem a long way from the fertile fields of the South West, but a Somerset charity is working to help mitigate a problem that could have far-reaching consequences. Fergus Byrne Read more »
I was about ten years old when I overheard my father explaining to someone that he was an atheist. ‘When you die, you die’ he told her. As one of his business activities was organising funerals, I had to assume Read more »
A couple of months ago researchers announced that iPhone users were more likely to see their phones as a status symbol than those using an android phone. It set off debate on what phones could tell us about an individual’s Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, as part of Bridport Literary Festival, I interviewed Times journalist David Aaronovitch about his book Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists. He is such an engaging speaker that there were questions which we never Read more »
Dorset resident and ‘Gaia theory’ scientist James Lovelock took a bit of flak for some of his comments in a recent article in the Guardian. Interviewed by Decca Aitkenhead, he had dramatically shifted his position on climate change since their Read more »