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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.

The future of Greenland has dominated the headlines in recent weeks, but increasingly the real action, both commercially and militarily, is taking place hundreds, even hundreds of thousands of miles a

In the middle of Stephen Ireland’s relaxing stretch, re-watching some match footage, his wife started laying into him. He wasn’t watching one of his 246 Premier League appearances for Manchester City,

Most of us, whether we admit it or not, would probably like to be a little smarter. After all, who wouldn’t want to be a chess whizz, or at the heart of the cut and thrust in every dinner party debate