Linkety-link in some haste
The ghosts of futures past: a journo delves into patents at the British Library.
At Kew Gardens, the visitor figures are blossoming as fast as the cherry trees: and the ginko biloba is changing sex. Yes, Kew is a magical place, and I still think the current entry charge is iniqituous.
Lawyers like talking in Latin and most legal documents are incomprehensible to anyone who is not an expert, so perhaps Mr Justice Peter Smith thought no one would notice when he slipped a coded message into his judgment on the recent Da Vinci Code case.
Julian Baggini (who doesn't seem to have been around much lately): There is... one sense in which being religious is extremely common indeed; so common, in fact, that even many atheists fall under the description.