Hi everyone, This is obviously a really scary time, but I have put together this list of reasons to be cheerful based mainly on the data. I have read everything, EVERYTHING I could find on this topic to pull this together. For a while I was a reporter on Radio 4's...

"It’s not often that you come across a clever, well-researched anthropological thriller that is every bit as exciting as it is intelligent. There are some grand claims made here but they are all backed up with discussions of the archaeological and linguistic record –...

As I breathe a sigh of relief over the election of Jo Swinson as the new leader of the Lib Dems, I thought I would commit to paper a few reflections on how, over the past two decades, my life has curiously elided with that of a fairly well known politician who happens...

The Killing Gene is published today, blasted out of the airlock: destination unknown. Will it race across the sky like a meteor, leaving a dazzling shower of sparks behind it? Or be immediately sucked out into an infinity of nothingness, just one more piece of...

Violence was in the air as the Malian elder and his strongest tribesman crossed the River Moa by canoe. Waiting on Tiwai Island were dozens of Sierra Leonean fishermen, seething with anger. The Malians had paddled through two countries to Sierra Leone, lured by the...

So, I have finished my second novel. I say second - it's actually the fourth I've written, including the two unpublished thrillers I wrote while trying to develop my craft to the point where it was any way readable. But this is only second of my books that will see...

A few photos from the launch of Foretold by Thunder, at the enchanting Daunts Books in Chelsea. The bash was immediately succeeded by several days of astonishing lightning storms across the country, which led a complete stranger to pen the immortal tweet: "I have no...

I was reminded during our investigation of the self-proclaimed 'church' which prescribes bleach for almost every illness that sometimes the most harmful people are those convinced of their own righteousness. Members of this sect have been promoting two chemicals which...