Peculiar postcards

The piece I’d never part with

RINGWOOD MARKET PLACE, HAMPSHIRE

Everyone’s looking. Million pound cars nearing Harrods on the Brompton Road invite an audience. But up front, splay legged under the hula hoop steering wheel, I’m invisible. That’s the thing about cha

You could never have accused Rolls-Royce of flooding the market with new models. In the 20 years preceding the New Phantom’s arrival in 1925, the Twenty had been the only new production Rolls to join

It has become an all too familiar tale in this era of new technology: a new company emerges from nowhere, boasts of an amazing car and promises that production will begin very soon – and then goes sus

Joe Nickell – one of the most distinctive and influential agents of the ‘humanist-skeptic’ movement spearheaded by the US-based Committee for Scientific Inquiry (CSI; formerly CSICOP) – died recently