Our cover story marks the 20th anniversary of the onset of one of Britain’s most notable modern poltergeist cases. In December 2005, a family in South Shields, South Tyneside, began experiencing disco

The Marvellous Miniatures Workshop Monday 1 December, BBC1 ...

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

From exploding lightbulbs to the Knights Templar – via Ron Howard and the Daleks

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else