Alex Trenoweth

Before this week, I have to admit that I usually don’t give a lot of thought to Norway. It always seemed to be such an innocuous country tha...

When someone blows up a city centre with a homemade fertiliser bomb and then dresses up as a policeman, grabs a machine gun and murders 70+...

It doesn’t seem many people were surprised to hear of the news of the death of Amy Winehouse. For months, she had been tottering on the nebu...

I'm sorry to write that Amy Winehouse qualifies as the newest member of the "Club of 27". Why Amy? I hear you ask. Does anyon...

The fixed star Algol has fascinated me for years. I even named one of my cats Perseus. And so with the Sun approaching conjunction of th...

A couple of years ago, I met the lovely Christine Garwood, author of “Flat Earth: the History of an Infamous Idea”. She was presenting her ...

I'm still struggling to catch up with my blog! Part of this is due to me launching my website which neatly compiles some of the article...