Claire Sweeney's big fat... What exactly was Claire Sweeney's motivation to put on as much weight as possible in a short time?
Golliwog-gate:the racism of anti-racists When Carol Thatcher, daughter of the former prime-minister, was accused of racism, were there sinister undercurrents at play?
Betrayal can, in some cases, be therapeutic, especially when the wellbeing of vulnerable people is at stake, as a recent Patients' Association report shows.
Abigail Blackburn and the truth about pregorexia Celebrity culture eats its own children, and nobody profits more than editors like Abigail Blackburn.
BBC - Murdoch throws his agendas into the debate When James Murdoch said he wanted to see the BBC broken up, he indicated that the marketplace should be a matter of the survival of the fittest - a phrase which horrified Charles Darwin because it typified the social Darwinism which so horrified him.
The orthodoxy of orthodonty There's more to life than perfect teeth.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows From Harry Potter through such stopping points as Odysseus and back - but contains spoilers: big ones!
Crocs, giraffes and the vagrant nerve: inside nature's giants Richard Dawkins attends the dissection of a giraffe's recurent laryngeal nerve by,among others, Joy Reidenberg, but fails to forward his agenda with the innervation of unborn vertebrates.
Don't go down the road to hell, it's jammed with bendy-buses How an amusing article by comedienne Ariane Sherine was subverted by radical militant atheists with sinister agendas.
Tesco: single-issue campaigners in tatters It feels like the Tesco store in Cambridge's Mill Road has been there forever, and the No Mill Road Tesco campaign is already in tatters.
Night Fighters Some wars are with us for a long time - Colin Heaton's and Anne-Marie Lewis's authoratative history of the night-war over Europe 1939-1945, and the advances in many fields which came about as a result.
In the ancient Church, catechumenates used to meditate on water during Lent prior to their Easter baptism. I can't promise a meditation, but here's some songs and some thoughts.
The passions of Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will soon be retiring from Opera, but will remain active in teaching singers how to produce the music she is so passionate about. Simon Cowell need not apply.
Underage smoking is more stupid than criminal An unorthodox but time-honoured way to discourage an underage smoker.
Propaganda in words and pictures An actual GCSE Science paper, showing the sort of propaganda our children are confronted with daily as regards issues related to the beginning of life.
Hot gossip: Sarah Kennedy and the obvious observation Sarah Kennedy committed the closest thing to a mortal sin in the BBC by calling Enoch Powell the greatest Prime Minister Britain never had.
Travails of the Jabberwock Tracking the mythical beast's decline through its various incarnations from Through the Looking Glass and The Last Mimsy.
The ichneumon delusion Review of the first of three programmes in which Richard Dawkins ostensibly celebrates the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birh, but in reality announces his self-apotheosis.
Stop press, breaking news, shock horror probe: snow in winter In Rome, a hot mediterranean city, snow hardly bothers transport and business - so why does it close down many English cities?
Lockerbie and the moral limits of diplomacy What happens when politicians with the skills of neither a Richelieu nor a Bismarck mess about with international diplomacy?
Anne Frank In the display on Anne Frank in Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital - the foundation was delivering diversity training - we saw the world famous picture of Anne staring into a future she would never see.
Swine flu and the hazard of hysteria This year 500,000 people will be killed by flu. That's the number who die every year. But the hysteria being whipped up about swine flu will help gevernments advance their agenda of having their citizens accept vaccinations unquestioningly, something Kant would have disapproved of.
How diverse is diversity? On a diversity course, a left-leaning friend of mine pointed out that diversity isn't a good in itself, and pointed to Adolf Hitler as the most diversity-aware leader of modern times. I'm working on putting him in touch with his inner conservative.
Top ten songs about places Sometimes songs about places strike a chord, and can stay with us over a lifetime.
Postsingular What happens after the singularity - the point at which artificial intelligence gains self-awareness and its cognitive powers surpass that of mankind? With characteristic Swiftian whimsy, Rudy Rucker offers a typically brilliant vision.
Hiroshima - a thousand suns A review of the literature tracing the path to Hiroshima - how have we fared since?
Top ten songs about legend On the anniversaries of Woodstock and Elvis Presley's death, a look at songs about legends of all sorts.
Homeless not hopeless The launch of a company run by people who are or have been homeless and their friends.
Is the way to save the world lies and gloom? Only now that it's illegal to buy real light bulbs for home use are we finding the true facts about the "eco-friendly" bulbs' longeivity and dangers.
Mary Pickford proved that success in Hollywood didn't guarantee happiness, as failing to break in the States is the straw that broke Katie Price's marriage to Peter André.
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