The photograph above shows an aerial view of a part of the Grand National racecourse at Aintree yesterday. Those of you who didn’t watch or were otherwise unaware of this race might be wondering what the red circle contains, so it’s only fair to say that there are polarised views about this. In plain English, [...]

Just a day or so ago, I was luxuriating in the sight of Anne the elephant relishing her new-found freedom in Longleat Safari Park. It was heartwarming to learn of her sheer happiness after the vile abuse she’d received at the hands of her Romanian ‘groom’ Nicolae, who has now apparently fled Britain, but my [...]

Earlier this evening, I received an amusing and intriguing missive from Frank Somers of the Stonehenge Druids. Frank asked me if I wanted to post it here on Mindscape and I’m very happy to do so. Over to you, Frank: I wake up in the mornings slowly and switch on the BBC breakfast news to [...]

The photograph above was released to the world on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011, and it shows the cover of one of the 70 or so “Books of Lead” that have recently come to light. I have no idea if these artefacts are genuine or not, and the media are being cautious in their coverage and [...]

The world of the ancients is separated from ours by a vast and ever-increasing gulf of time. Our scientists continue to make astonishing discoveries in the field of physics, but it seems unlikely that any of us will be able to physically travel back across the ages for a long while to come, if ever. [...]

As Special Agent Fox Mulder once observed, “If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?” He was right, of course, because there is some thing about coincidences that makes us sit up and take notice, while we often look into them for deeper meaning. Regardless of whether or not we can divine [...]

A few days ago, I wrote on the Mindscape site about the terrible plight of Anne, Britain’s last remaining circus elephant, pictured on the left, after The Animal Defenders International charity secretly filmed this poor old lady being kicked, beaten, stabbed and tortured at the winter quarters of Bobby Roberts Circus in Polebrook, Northamptonshire. Unsurprisingly, [...]