It’s been a little while since I’ve written a piece about the pure joy of flight. I hope you enjoy Cloud Surfing with me…

It’s been a little while since I’ve written a piece about the pure joy of flight. I hope you enjoy Cloud Surfing with me…

What would you do if the satellites you depend on stopped working?

Discontent with the political class is greater than ever - has the UK become ungovernable?

Fears are growing for Edinburgh’s Royal Observatory after warnings that potential UK funding cuts could put its future at risk.

If you properly shuffle a standard deck of 52 playing cards then the chances are that the arrangement of cards you are now holding has never existed before in the history of the human race and likely wont again.

We often take for granted that planets, shaped by the force of gravity, are spherical. However, a closer look reveals that the Earth is not a perfect sphere—it is slightly squashed. But is it squashed...

I'd almost forgotten I'd written this but I'm pretty pleased to see my work in print again. It's been a while... My review of Dragan Radulović's inquisitive work, Why Does Math Work … If It's Not Real? has been published in this month's Mathematics Today. I really enjoyed this whistle-stop tour of many key mathematical concepts. If you are scientifically or mathematically curious, I think you will too.

Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chatea...

It's been quite an intimidating thought. And, if I'm honest, I've probably been overthinking it. Which all compounds the unnecessary stress I'm placing on myself. But, as you'll know if you follow me on social media, I've finally plucked up the courage to start drafting my first novel. I wish I'd done it sooner. One of the things that put me off was the perennial "where do I start?" question.

Final preparations now get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.

If I offered you odds of 1 in 3 to win the lottery, you'd take it right? Good odds. But what, if there was a 1 in 3 chance of an asteroid hitting the moon? Context is everything right? Asteroid 2024 YR4 - a name like that just rolls off the tongue doesn't it... is classed as a near earth object (NEO) it is approximately 53 - 67 m wide, or about the same size as a 15 storey building.

Now that the holidays are here, I finally have time to write a blog, but this one's a little different. Why? Well this is the first post I've written by hand for years! When I first started writing I used to write with a pen into a notebook. I find the act of sitting and writing with a pen onto paper helps me think more creatively.

The 1st of October 2025 marked the start of the most significant licensing changes for UK microlight pilots in years. As an instructor, I’ve been fielding questions from students and fellow pilots alike: What’s changing? Why now? And how does it affect me? The short answer: the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is simplifying and aligning licensing rules across NPPL, PPL, and LAPL.