In Bletchley Park 's museum stands (or sits, rather pensively hunched over an Enigma machine) this slate sculpture of mathematician, c...

No, this isn't a sneak-peak at this year's Christmas must-have on the toy shelves*: I'm talking about my first visit to a parti...

There are creatures that walk the Earth remaining largely unseen; shadows, heat-haze, corner-of-the-eye stuff. I know this because I am one ...

I've been tagged. This doesn't happen very often, and even when it does I'm usually inclined to ignore it: I don't like cont...

2012 was, for a number of people I know, an anus* horribilis. It's been a year, as they all are, of endings, beginnings, and rather mo...