In the early 1990s, well into the third decade of its armed struggle against the occupation of Northern Ireland, the Provisional IRA breathed fresh life into its bitter campaign, by launching a series of deadly attacks on the British mainland. In sharp contrast, an octogenarian Soviet Union coughed apologetically and collapsed in on itself, decimating the lives of its people, and spawning […]

Tuesday, July the sixth, two thousand and four is a date Jack Pascoe will never forget. Almost two full decades after he completed his degree course in Experimental Physics and Molecular Science and embarked on a single-minded quest to turn brash theory into the must-have appliance, he ended a well-earned holiday prematurely to pay an […]