Something remarkable happened in Estonia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Across the tiny Baltic nation, the governance of …

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Years ago, when only academics and spies had email, I went to visit my pen-pal in America. He was a nice enough guy, but it was his father…

A few weeks back, I introduced my boys to the ultimate manna of geeky teenage big-screen nostalgia: Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

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About 15 years ago my wife and I decided to rip up our family bathroom and start again. It was so dated that Thomas Crapper himself

When I was 11, I spent the summer trying to solve the Rubik’s Cube. I twisted the thing on the sofa, in front of the telly, at the dining…

Yet another survey-based report about the use of AI by insurers flitted into my inbox this week. It came from the fintech AutoRek…

Football fans will remember the huge excitement that accompanied Real Madrid’s Galácticos policy. It was electrically tangible the first …