On Fatherhood, Identity and the Premier League Title

The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...

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Here we are for the last two quarter-final matches. This series has been going for nearly nine months and comes to a close in three short weeks. Before that, I've got some reviewing to do. I write th...

Former prisons minister appears in court to admit four drugs charges stemming from raid on his Surrey home

John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.

Imperial and Warwick have played each other three times in University Challenge history. First in the 1996 semi-final, which Imperial won, and then in the quarter-finals and semi-finals of 2021, both ...

Darwin vs Sheffield Darwin made it through to the quarter finals by making a mockery of my round two predictions and knocking off the number two-rated Merton College, so I won't be making the same mi...

I joined Twitter in October 2009 and immediately followed Stephen Fry, Jenson Button, Barack Obama and Jake Humphreys. Not quite a nightmare blunt rotation, but not the dream one either. Obama followe...

It's too late to say Happy New Year, so I'm not going to do that. Instead, I'm going to say well done to Durham, who became the first quartet in University Challenge history to retain their trophy in ...

Edinburgh and Trinity have played only once in UC history, with Edinburgh winning a quarter-final match in 2022. Trinity came into this as slight favourites (to me, in terms of winning likelihood), bu...

Two things happened this week which made me feel old. First, I was jumping up and down in my kitchen (not sure exactly why, the reason being lost in the ensuing pain) and rolled my foot in a way that...

November is National Novel Writing Month. Or at least it was, before the NaNoWriMo organisation crashed and burned at the altar of AI (everything is AI, these days). Instead, then I'm calling it LoMoW...

SOAS played UCL in their first round match, and I estimated their proximity to be among the highest of all non-collegiate University Challenge teams, with the walk between their campuses coming in und...

Storm Amy whacked our power out for two days last weekend. Which means that for once I have a good excuse for not getting round to writing my review of Imperial vs Churchill. Of course, I could have w...

Isn't it infuriating when something you've heard a million times but never really taken on board turns out to be right? Sipping a coffee on the sofa, a casual morning, I take out my notebook. Take ou...

This morning I entered a writing prize. Or rather, I'm not sure if I entered it, because when I originally tried to submit - with about 15 minutes to spare before a deadline I've known about for more ...

S55E08 - Lincoln vs Lancaster University Challenge isn't quite 87 years old (it turns 63 (three score and three) on 21st September), but Lincoln have still waited a long time for their first appearan...

I've just peeled 2kg of potatoes. If I worked in the kitchen of a Victorian manor house and there was a large feast coming up, this would be a tiny amount of potatoes (did they peel potatoes back in t...

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