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...managed to measure some movement when they put the seismograph on a bridge. We also got tiny readings when we jumped next to the device. The helicopter bringing the other scientists back from the mountain also pushed the pen right off the paper. If there had been an earthquake, we might have detected it! See if you can get the Earth to move underneath your seismograph....

...manager for a university with students in prison, my role involves working with the prison authorities to facilitate higher education study in their establishments. My experience in this role has helped to highlight the many difficulties faced by both prisoners who wish to engage in higher-level study and prison staff who are tasked with supporting them. I also lecture...

...manage to deflect criticism. Yet the OBR has confirmed that weaker GDP growth and tax receipts left the 2015-16 deficit at £76 billion, four times its £18 billion forecast. Is the timing right? Chancellor Hammond can also argue that historically low interest rates on public debt make this the right time for governments to borrow more. In a world seemingly awash with...

...management firms take quarter of PPI payouts’, the other warning that ‘Pensions overhaul could trigger raft of mis-selling’. Each was a telling reminder that the financial services sector is criminogenic, a series of markets and firms where crime is part of normal business practice and within which UK banks are “serial offenders”. In recent years, the financial...

...managed, focus-driven candidates that authenticity comes across as lunacy”. Yet in one way, Corbyn and Sanders are actually utterly conventional: they’re both older white men. A new generation of progress? The West’s progressives are speaking to as wide a sector of the population as they can and preaching solidarity across the lines of race, gender, and age, but...