Recent articles from publications based in United Kingdom.
Public Domain Reviewby Hunter Dukes13 May 2026
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition) One afternoon in 1624, the writer James Howell stumbled upon his colleagues engaged in a duel.
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson7 May 2026
Apparently, adding an ellipsis on the end of an e-mail subject header triggers a lot of spam filters, especially Gmail.
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson5 May 2026
...Or they may be. I'm thinking about how I want to organise my online output. I know, calm yourselves Ladies.
Public Domain Reviewby Hunter Dukes30 Apr 2026
Even the greatest monuments from the ancient world are no match for the accomplishments of capitalism, when the bourgeoisie became “the first to show what man’s activity can bring about”, as Marx...
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson26 Apr 2026
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson I came across that quote for the first time earlier this year.
Public Domain Reviewby Thea Applebaum Licht22 Apr 2026
Sixty years before Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself transformed, another confrontation between man and bug: this time, between the common flea and an off-kilter fellow in a three-piece suit.
Public Domain Reviewby Ross MacFarlane16 Apr 2026
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) The New York physician Frank Dudley Beane (1851–94) was not the most prolific writer.
BBC Newsby Justin Rowlatt15 Apr 2026
"I'm an early adopter of new technology," says Gavin Tait, a 69-year-old from Glasgow, with a hint of pride.
BBC Newsby Rebecca Morelle11 Apr 2026
- Published For the last 10 days, four astronauts have been making history, travelling further into space than humans have been before as they voyaged to the Moon and back.
Environment | The Guardianby Verónica García de León and Erin McCormick7 Apr 2026
Mexico is facing a “toxic crisis” and has become a “garbage sink” for the US, exposing Mexican communities to dangerous pollution, a UN expert has warned.
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson6 Apr 2026
This is going to be brief, because it would be really nice to salvage something of the holiday weekend. This week has seen me mostly cosplaying as a Customer Service Assistant.
BBC Newsby Rebecca Morelle; Alison Francis; Kevin Church5 Apr 2026
- Published No-one will have been further from home than the Artemis astronauts. But as the Earth shrinks ever smaller in their rear-view mirror, they've had a constant connection with mission...
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson2 Apr 2026
This one really shouldn't exist. Somewhere back in the mists of time, the first Mythos radio play slipped unnoticed through the BBC commissioning system.
BBC Newsby Pallab Ghosh18 Mar 2026
When the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Stockholm in October 2013, the world was watching.
Fashion | The Guardianby Jess Cartner-Morley2 Feb 2026
Let’s get real. Few of us look or feel at our most fabulous in February. It’s been cold and dark for, what, 18 months? Feels like it.
Environment | The Guardianby Erin McCormick, The Guardian, and Verónica García de León, Quinto Elemento Lab1 Feb 2026
The Mexican government has announced it will pursue a sweeping array of tactics to combat industrial pollution, from $4.8m in fines against a plant processing US hazardous waste to the rollout of a...
BBC Sportby Tasnim Chowdhury20 Jan 2026
- Published All of the eight franchises in The Hundred have sold ownership stakes ahead of the sixth season of the competition.
BBC Sportby Tasnim Chowdhury6 Jan 2026
- Published The next men's Ashes will take place in 2027 in England. The dates have not yet been confirmed, but the series is played in the UK summer months.
Environment | The Guardianby Erin McCormick, The Guardian, and Verónica García de León, Quinto Elemento Lab2 Dec 2025
An industrial boom in a US manufacturing hub in Mexico is contributing to a massive air pollution crisis that is threatening residents’ health, according to new research by the Guardian and Quinto...
Fashion | The Guardianby Jessica DeFino20 Nov 2025
Dear Ugly, I’m 36 and I don’t need or want a facelift – but lately I feel like I’m being made to want a facelift.
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