Rants-&-Rambles

As one gets older, few things bring more pleasure than a good rant-or-ramble. The more unhinged, vitriolic and unfounded, the better. Take patriotism for example.

Spying is as old as history, so perhaps it needs a reboot. Instead, in the West's existential battle with the forces-of-darkness, for victory covert-soft-power must now be exercised behind enemy-lines.

Toilets have been critical to our species success over thousand of years. Let's examine this key development from historical, cultural and technological perspectives.

Chemistry, from school-lessons to meth-labs, it affects us all. Is it time to reappraise this subject that supposedly hit its hey-day in the 19th century?

After many years of research at the British-Museum, combined with copious personal experience, this is my crazed-critique of capitalism.

Nuclear-power is heading for a renaissance where all the previous mistakes will be consigned to the past (really?).