It’s All a Matter of Luck
Hurry, hurry! Only eight billion years left to extinction! Our solar system will be transformed by the ageing sun before coming to a spectacular...
Singing (and Dancing) in the Rain
Thanks to Hollywood and John Grisham, most of us now know what a 'rainmaker' is, which is to say a person who brings prestige...
All Our Forgotten Misdeeds
It was with considerable relief that I learned it is no longer an offence to be 'an incorrigible rogue' under the Vagrancy Act of...
Why Detectives Aren’t Perfect
There was rather a portly TV detective called Frank Cannon, played by the late William Conrad, who used to pursue criminals on foot at...
Making Short Work of It – David Aitken
Judges hope juries will keep their deliberations short, and guilty people hope judges will hand down short sentences. We all live in such a...