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Europeans drawn from three ancient tribes.

How an independent Scotland could have been the richest nation on Earth. (Note that's "could", not "would".)

"...there is someone out there who thinks Doctor Who is fundamentally a show about two teachers hanging out in a junk yard, and that it all fell apart when they introduced that time travel guff."

Jens Voigt breaks the hour record.

Grammar NAZIs, grammar libertarians and grammar rapists.

"That Sinatra, he's met me, you know."

Some common sense feminism on the 'Are video games sexist?' question.

Who's buried in this tomb?

£8 minimum wage - good idea? What do you think?

This clever analysis of why the New Zealand Labour Party isn't as successful as it should be applies equally well to the British Labour Party.

Scottish role-playing games (sort of...)

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Brilliant new Blade Runner theory about Deckard, Rachael...and Gaff.

Scotland to be covered in tinfoil.

You bake. You roleplay. You NEED this. Now.

A Conservative - Labour coalition in 2015 is more plausible than you think.

How to complete Snake.

Trying to explain the American academic jobs market.

Is getting milk delivered by a milkman really so unusual? I mean we can get it in a tiny sub-village in Cornwall that doesn't have mains gas or streetlights.

Can you name a nation that became rich with statist policies? Can you name a nation with interventionism and big government that is out-performing a similar nation with free markets and small government?

Five great football derbies of the world that you might not know about.

This is a very effective way to liven up what appears to be quite a tame rollercoaster.

How to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors. (By the way, did you know that Rock, Paper, Scissors was the very first roleplaying game combat system, in Dave Arneson’s pre-D&D Blackmoor campaign?)

How big a snob is Vince Cable?

The Daily Mail (i.e. the newspaper) and MailOnline (the website) are very different. And to prove it, just look who MailOnline have hired to be 'Editor-at-Large (US)'.

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Young people lack workplace skills, say British Chambers of Commerce. Schools don’t do enough to engage with the business community, in my opinion. Many are only interested in academic success, sport, music and drama, and think about employability skills once a year if that. So this survey comes as no surprise to me.

This is exactly the sort of thing they should be teaching in schools.

'France is finished', says John Lewis MD.

Come on, it's long overdue. Surely there should be a knighthood for Jeremy Clarkson.

The speech that Mrs Thatcher cancelled after the Brighton bombing. The language seems quite Tolkienian- ‘dark shadow’ etc, only she’s talking about union thuggery and Labour corruption, not orcish thuggery and Sauronic corruption.

Odd images from Google Earth.

Psychological research? Reach for the Monster Manual! (Incidentally, you can buy the new 5th edition Monster Manual for £29.99 from The Shop on the Borderlands...)

This BBC Cornwall news story is nowhere near as exciting as its headline suggests.