You'll never see a better use of a before/after photo slider than in this v nice piece about balding by @rhodri.biz www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

It's mindblowing what they're having to do there - retrieve radioactive waste from giant concrete silos that were never designed to be emptied. This one was built in the 50s. Retrievals started in 2023.

Went to Sellafield to look at how robots - including those mad dogs - are increasingly joining the nuclear decommissioning race. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

A good day to share one's own worst mistake (xref the de Blasio balls-up). See last paragraph, and the mea culpa: simonusborne.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/w... #wankyballs

No idea who this “Osborne” guy is

Famously comfy? You might as well be dragging my arse over the sleepers

Here’s Jim trying his bionic arm after connecting it to the titanium implant for the first time. He twitches the muscles in his stump to control its motors

I first talked to Jim four years ago, not long after he’d lost his arm. He’d worked in prosthetics and orthotics for 20+ years. He wanted to connect a bionic arm via a titanium implant that is dividing surgeons and the NHS. Wrote about it for Guardian Saturday: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I did work experience there as a 15 year old in 1997 and was amazed by the whole operation. My first byline would be just the first of many huge scoops

Update: The now infamous Everest 7-day "xenon" team of Brits, including a govt minister, have reached the summit four days after leaving Heathrow. Pic from Lukas Furtenbach. You read it here first: www.ft.com/content/0f0d...

Oh maybe there’s a nice piece to be written, you think, about whichever avuncular genius decided to rebrand brine shrimp as Sea Monkeys, turning them into millions of kids’ first pet (including mine)

Late sharing this but I met an amazing runner recently who used to be in King Crimson and is now breaking national age records aged 80. That's a current picture of him. Couldn't believe the shape he's in. www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

Wrote about the Biscoff-alypse for Sunday Times Mag www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

From Tulip Siddiq's fist national media interview, with me, in 2016. That shadow has turned out to be a little more complicated... (she's just resigned as a minister) www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Slightly unguardianlike language imo