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One of my favourite writers, Neil Gaiman, the author of American Gods, Coraline, and all manner of other creations and wonders, has won the Carnegie medal – and I am overjoyed.

It is the UK’s most prestigious award for children’s literature, and it was scooped [...]

The iPhone 4 was released today, and there has been the inevitable buzz of interest and frenzied excitement from fans and eager buyers keen to get their hands on the product.

I think it should be dubbed iPhone Day.

However, you don’t need to be an Apple hater to take a step back and think: what is [...]

Reports show that as much as 41% of parents deliberately lie when filling out car insurance policy applications – and that number is only set to rise. But are they going about tackling it in the right way?

In a process known as “fronting”, when the parents ring up or fill in forms for car insurance, [...]

After applying for a freelance journalism course (which was actually more of a talk) last week, I yesterday, I found myself in the kind of big, bustling building that does internet, video, and audio conferencing on a regular basis.
The site where it was being held was, quite easily, the most lavish set of offices I’ve [...]

Work, the family, the friends. It would be difficult to leave any of the three behind. But I have been thinking about it. Wondering if I could do it. Wondering if I should.
Because with summer coming, I have had thoughts over recent weeks about going on holiday to the Philippines. It’s not that I’ve ever [...]

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There is a video here which shows, quite clearly, a four-year-old lad climbing up the side of an escalator, and falling hazardously down – to be caught by a heroic shopkeeper.

The higher he got, the less ground there was for him to stand on, [...]

My last phone came with a small bag (disposable, of course), with which I could could pop inside any old phones I had in lying around, and post them off for recycling or selling. Which is all well and good. In fact, selling your mobile phone to people like the Mobile Phone Exchange seems like [...]

There is an interesting story up on the Times online website about Sir Isaac Newton.
Or, more precisely, part of his tree.
Newton is, of course, widely regarded as being one of the greatest scientists of his era, and is certainly one of the most famous faces around. The discovery of gravity, and the theory behind it, [...]

It’s good to see companies like this rising out of the lows of the recession, and continue to create new products. It gives a warm, sensible sort of feeling: a feeling of stability, like things are returning to normal.
On the Times online today, and after a bit of browsing, I stumbled on this: a piece [...]

It looks like the player described as the ‘world’s worst’ by a number of papers refused to take it lying down. And such proactivity has earned him a lot of money in damages from a number of news outlets. But his action against the Telegraph was not so peachy.
The interesting story is documented here. It [...]