For some weeks now, I have been obsessed by the “Polygon” puzzle, in the appropriately named “MindGames” section of The Times newspaper. Th...

There’s nothing like a dystopian vision of the future to spark a conversation. Many science fiction stories comment on the state of the worl...

Thirteen days from now, we will have discovered our destiny, as the referendum on whether the United Kingdom should stay in the European Uni...

Last month, the Co-Op, as no-one ever called it “The Co-Operative,” began returning to its original 1968-93 “cloverleaf” logo, and I approve...

I had intended to start like this: “Like when a man came to John Lennon, on a flaming pie, to tell him, ‘you are The Beatles with an A,’ the...