traffic
Smart motorways are very stupid
‘An attempted improvement which actually makes things worse.’ The Germans have a name for this — Verschlimmbesserung — and I…
Barometer
So near and yet so far Henry Worsley died in a Chilean hospital of peritonitis after being airlifted from Antartica,…
London Notebook
I’ve spent much of the autumn and winter shooting my new TV series for BBC1. New Blood looks at the…
Elysian fields
Glastonbury is a model for radical policy reform, says Steve Hilton
Long life
I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…
Barometer
One-way stretch A study at Louisville University in Kentucky concluded that collisions are twice as likely in one-way streets as…
Barometer
Watching brief Samsung warned users of its voice-activated televisions that what they said in front of the TV could be…
Long life
I was listening to the radio the other morning to hear people complaining about the huge cuts in the number…
Dear Mary
Q. I graduated this year (I got a first) and have written more than 70 letters to potential employers. Those…
