Rant of the day

TYRE PRESSURE It's a truism to say that bicycles are dependent on air pressure. But that fact was brought home to me today with a veng...

MEDIÆVAL QUEENS The role of queens in the Middle Ages was ill-defined. On the one hand, although legal customs (eg the right to own proper...

PILGRIMAGE (2) Because I went on  this year's walking tour just after Easter, I was able to go on my wife's pilgrimage this Whit...

GIRO D'ITALIA (4) Ryder Hesjedal was the surprise winner of this year's Giro d'Italia, winning the pink jersey by 16 seconds f...

COOKIES Cookies are small data files, that allow websites to recognise and track users. They attach themselves to a visitor's computer...

WIND POWER Denmark has long been in the forefront of wind power. And in the forefront of that forefront, so to speak, has been Vestas, sti...

HAPPY CHAPPIES International surveys regularly record that Denmark is the happiest country on earth, and the latest one, carried out on be...