The Cambria Zeitgeist - 1

Ben Wildsmith As the Conservatives’ electoral prospects continue their journey towards Shit Creek, the Prime Minister’s ongoing hunt for a paddle is becoming yet more desperate. The ‘Rwanda plan’ to deter illegal migration is the hill he has chosen to die on, and he’s too committed now to back out. Much is made of the […]

Last week a little podcast about Parkinson’s won a big award: here’s what I learned over a year producing it

Ben Wildsmith Since the financial crash of 2008, there has been a constant suspicion that something cataclysmic was in the works for the UK, and the Western world more generally. Previous to that event, we were all conditioned to believe that money was a finite resource: something that could only be grown by the application […]

“Pixy/Piskie: This is the standard term in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset for a fairy, though many writers from the early 19th Century have insisted that the two races are quite distinct.. (A pixie’s) best-known characteristic is causing people to lose their way, even in a familiar neighbourhood: victims can escape by turning some item of clothing inside out… However, single pixies are sometimes credited with being helpful.” - A Dictionary Of English Folklore (Oxford University Press, 2000)

The Verge has published an article looking back at two decades of Gmail, the launch of which was announced with an appropriately…

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