Boost for esports students

If there’s one profession you’d think wouldn’t want to fire up a game of Call of Duty after a hard day at work, it would be military personnel. Yet gaming might be bigger in the military than any othe

The problem with being in the Royal Navy esports team is that it’s pretty hard to practise when you’re on a warship. Unless, that is, you’re one of the crew of the HMS Prince of Wales. Last summer, th

In the 1960s, American project developer and writer Stewart Brand played a part in the LSD-based counterculture of San Francisco. Along with author Ken Kesey and composer Ramón Sender Barayón, he co-p

Once known for its lacemaking factories, Nottingham has reinvented itself as a centre of role-playing games. Games Workshop – maker of Warhammer 40,000 – is a multibillion-pound behemoth, and it sustains a whole ecosystem.

Ford Motor Company exists because of motorsport. In 1901, Henry Ford took part in his only race, a 10-mile contest against Alexander Winton in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in a self-built 26hp car called

It’s generally accepted that provision for music in the UK’s state schools is patchy, varying hugely from one local borough to another and one school to another, according to the importance placed on