Innovations

This year we should see the construction of a luxury housing development within the iconic gasometer by The Oval cricket ground – the historic grade II listed metal lattice that has looked down [...]

This time last week, Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous groundhog (the world’s only famous groundhog) was emerging from his burrow to make his annual weather prediction. If he [...]

Here’s a story that might have escaped your attention. Back in 2019 a company called Trelleborg Sealing Solutions got together with students at Tewkesbury School to make the world’s [...]

Among the many works of Oscar Wilde that I haven’t read is an essay called The Decay of Lying, which contains the pithy little quote: “Life imitates art more than art imitates [...]

My friend Toddy likes trains. There, I’ve said it. As if that’s not weird enough, he also plays keyboard in my band (or “our” band, as the others like to call it). How [...]