Journalism
Anne Frank’s Beau
On Friday 7 January 1944, Anne Frank confessed her love for a boy she had been smitten with for years. She had first set eyes upon him in school in 1940, and they had been ‘inseparable’ for …
read moreOur Disappearing Bees
Beekeeping, once the lazy hobby of men and women in summer hats, has become the preserve of entomologists, epidemiologists, propagandists and technical specialists. It has also become …
read moreThe Portman Clinic
Seventy-five years ago, a middle-aged woman walked into a London clinic to receive help with her violent temper. She’d attacked her employer and was judged to be worthy of psychological …
read moreMark Zuckerberg
I was told not to expect a human whirlwind, but when Mark Zuckerberg walks into the room there is barely a breeze. He is 24, on the short side, shy in the way that short, ginger-haired …
read moreCatch it! Bin it! Profit from it!
On 30 September 2009, Professor David Salisbury, the Department of Health’s Director of Immunisation, sent a detailed letter to the people who were responsible for our future wellbeing …
read moreSir Clive Sinclair Looks Forward
At the beginning of 1980, Clive Sinclair launched a computer that he hoped would change the world. In the majority of cases it only changed the way people played primitive computer games, …
read moreGordon Ramsay Seeks Reinvention
Wherever he goes, Gordon Ramsay sees knives. Today they are at a photography studio in Clapham, a halo pointing inwards towards his head. At other times they are in the hands of rival chefs, …
read moreAre your friends making you fat?
A couple of months ago, about 80 people – some of whom knew each other and some of whom did not – gathered in a small lecture room at Nuffield College, Oxford, to hear a man give a …
read morePete Townshend: Who He Is
Rock music in 2011 is not quite what it was in the mid-1960s. For one thing, it is full of challenging coincidences, such as the one reported by Pete Townshend in a recent e-mail. “I was …
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