Hums and Haws

 The 8-Conic Theorem The author's name appears in the top row of the New York Times Connections puzzle 828 that appeared in 16th Septemb...

is a good guess for completing the missing letters in the word D??MA. Wordle enthusiasts will probably be aware that there is another good g...

  Since 2001 the koala population of Eastern Australia has halved. They are under constant threat from the destruction of their habitats, bu...

Democracy may be the best of a bad bunch of forms of government, but can be very regressive. The grey brigade (to which I belong) is a power...

In The Economist this week the columnist Bagehot points out that 'shrinkflation' -- a stealthy commercial device for raising prices...

I am so allergic to euphemisms that I am prone to stop reading (or visibly cringe) when a writer (or speaker) describes a dead person as hav...

  The bull has left his pen and is in the ring, the spectators are in their seats, baying for blood, a whole nation of them in front of thei...