Snatching phones is rarely opportunistic. Small groups on ebikes or scooters set out to tourist hotspots for the express purpose of snatching phones from unwary users. Often their faces are covered, … (View Post)

The Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology (yes, it is that time of the year again) has been awarded to the discoverers of T-cells. One of the recipients cannot be contacted as he has gone ‘off-grid’… (View Post)

Pensions used to be linked to wages, which was changed by the Thatcher government to inflation, which led to Gordon Brown's much-derided 75p increase, and thus indirectly to the triple lock. (View Post)

Wrongly. (Yes, I know.) (View Post)

The Conservatives had just lost the 1964 election, having been in office for a decade with a succession of elderly leaders, and it was time for a new generation (well, ww2 as opposed to ww1). There w… (View Post)