My friend’s child has written a story about a hedgehog named — obviously and appropriately — Prick

Jean Fick, Carnet (1940s). Fick was born in Moselle (then Germany), 1876. He died in the Lorquin psychiatric hospital in 1958. Fick, who worked as a miner before being conscripted in the German army, suffered serious head trauma during the First World War.

Can't believe he's going to build HS2

Once again, it's incredible to see how ahead-of-his-time Shakespeare was.

Who among us, after a bad date, has not said 'Well I am glad I am so rid of this tinder boy' ?

(Q1 Merry Wives, 1602, B2v)

benjamin aldes wurgaft Proudly standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the most annoying people I have ever met

I chair the acquisitions meeting of Reaktion Books, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

These 'chronophotographs' were made by Eadweard Muybridge in 1887. For the writer Rebecca Solnit, his work spans between our accelerated world and one 'in which human beings and their voices and knowledge were no faster than the animals and water and wind that surrounded them.'

Yes. Other red flag answers are ‘seagull’ and ‘you’

After months of feeling like a potato that had been buried by TS Eliot I feel very happy again today