Don't worry. Let's be honest, I'm not likely to give up the day job for comedy. (View Post)

Didn’t Sir Isaac Newton also play himself in the same episode? (View Post)

Dear PB, I apologise for my attempt at a joke earlier in which I suggested that Sir Isaac Newton, who died in 1727, played himself in an episode of a television show aired in 1993. It clearly was not… (View Post)

Apropos of nothing… Despite his undoubted intelligence, Hawking was modest about his gifts. When asked in a 2004 interview with The New York Times what his IQ is, Hawking gave a curt reply: "I h… (View Post)

Talking of Truss, I caught up with an old University chum for the first time in nearly 30 years on Sunday. He editor of the Oxford Student (OUSU funded rival of Cherwell) and told me of some of the l… (View Post)