David Miliband returns to mainstream politics

A few days ago I spent a morning in Ruthin.  My car needed some work and the nearest main dealer is there, so I dropped it off and went for a walk. Ruthin is a [more…]

Idly browsing the Interweb the other day, I came across this BBC article on the terrible outlook for the ice sheet around the North Pole: Arctic Summers to be ice-free by 2013. Well worth a [more…]

I’ve been aware of this bit of our history since I was in Junior School, but the other day I read about it again and thought the story was worth retelling. In the mid-fourteenth century, [more…]