Will Hutton makes some interesting points about class, and why it still matters, in a recent Observer piece.  But he’s also made a rather startling mistakes in his maths.  He states that The good luck of being born into the right family is profound. Two American researchers, Betty Hart and Todd Risley, show how children [...]

At the start of the year I spent 10 days on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.  The whole island has been created by volcanic activity and I was fascinated by its many different geological features such as the Jameos del Agua and La Cueva de los Verdes. I also visited one volcano where you can [...]

The other Sunday I went for a walk around a part of the boundary of the Eastside regeneration area in Brum. No, really. It was a part of Nikki Pugh‘s Uncertain Eastside project and turned out to be less of a “walk” and more of a “people clamber around a bit and take photos”. Only [...]