By Deirdre Liebman With the winter finally over, and spring just around the corner, it is the perfect time to explore two classic children’s novels in which nature features prominently, ‘The Secret Garden’ and ‘Little House on the Prairie’. ‘The Secret Garden’, which was published in 1911, is written by and loosely based on the […]
Monthly Archives: March 2026
By-Election Results Reflect Rising Green Party Support
By Harriet Wood A by-election happens when an MP’s seat in the House of Commons is opened for any reason between general elections. Spencer is the first ever Green Party candidate to win a by-election, and won by a significant margin (40.7% of the vote). In contrast, during the 2023 Somerton and Frome by-election, the […]
St Patrick’s Day: 5 Myths Debunked
by Maria Boyle St Patrick’s Day is on the 17th of March, the traditional date of his death. Here are 5 common misconceptions about him that you probably believe… debunked! His real name was St Patrick. MYTH! He was originally called Maewyn Succat, a name chosen by his parents, but when converting the Irish pagans, […]
The Power of One Simple Meal: The Story of Mary’s Meals
By Melita Jose Mary’s Meals grew out of a charity called Scottish International Relief (SIR). SIR was set up after Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow and his brother Fergus took aid from their home in Scotland to Bosnia-Herzegovina during the conflict in 1992. Over the next 10 years, SIR expanded, building homes for abandoned children in Romania, helping […]
The UK’s First Remote Robotic Surgery
By Ruth Perkins A historic medical moment On the 4th of March, Paul Buxton became the UK’s first patient of remote robot telesurgery. He was treated in St Bernard’s Hospital in Gibraltar by world-leading urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta, who performed the surgery through a robot at The London Clinic, 2,400 km away. Mr Buxton […]
Is the Largest Iceberg on Earth Facing Its End?
By Sze Wing Ng History The A23a iceberg is famously known as the largest iceberg in the world, proven by visible data and thermal imagery. It has a surface area of 3,500 square kilometres, twice the size of Greater London, and reaches 40 metres above sea level. Its history dates back around 40 years to […]
Pen to Processor: How AI is changing books
By Esinam Asima The rise of Ai books poses an issue for creativity and society As AI begins writing stories, what happens to human creativity? “Predictable, generic, and, frankly, boring” – this is how the Greenleaf Book Group described books written by AI. With the rise of artificial intelligence and its rapid implementation across almost […]
Book of the Week: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen
By Deirdre Liebman Jane Austen, who was born in Hampshire, England, on December 16,1775, the seventh child of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra, is one of Britain’s most celebrated authors. Despite dying at the young age of 41, she wrote six romantic novels in her lifetime, two of which, Northanger Abbey and […]