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Excellent article. And among other things gets right that the cuckoo clock is not Swiss: "Nor did they invent the cuckoo clock, if it comes to that. Bavaria was responsible for that kitsch contraption." It was Franz Anton Ketterer who invented it - Ketterer kitsch at its best.

Fantastic piece by Theo Zenou about the crackpot philosopher who inspired Marine Le Pen and the French far right unherd.com/2024/07/marine…

People who like to say, "A photograph is worth a thousand words"--can I just point out that you've used words to say that.

Following in the footsteps of The Third Man. My latest travel piece: thomaswhodgkinson.com/travel_pieces/…

“Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?” Morrissey sang. In a new Nautilus piece, the Morrissey of science writing, Ananyo Bhattacharya, questions which comes first out of physics and mathematics. The answer, increasingly, is physics. nautil.us/why-physics-is…

For Ada Lovelace Day on 8 October, the Royal Institution, which we’re proud to call home, has an evening of talks to celebrate the contributions of women in science. These range from the mathematics of fashion to the evolutionary perfection of cats. rigb.org/whats-on/ada-l…

there are times when only Travis will do youtube.com/watch?v=eYO1-g…

How do you solve a problem like Vladimir? For a piece in The Times, I sat down with Mikhail Khodorkovsky to talk about the future of Russia and why he's supporting a programme of fellowships for Russians at the London Institute (lims.ac.uk). thomaswhodgkinson.com/features/talki…

The Mail on Sunday let me drop by a few pubs for a game of darts

We live in an age of procrastination, caught between the Scylla of the work cult and the Charybdis of the autonomy cult. So argues Simon May in his intriguing new book. But what on earth does he mean? Find out by reading my self-exposing new review here: thomaswhodgkinson.com/book_reviews/g…

In a letter to James I, the Duke of Buckingham declared he was looking forward to having his "legs soon in my arms". Make of that what you will. It's just one of the smorgasbord of revelations in a terrific new biography, which I reviewed for The Guardian. theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…

What Kierkegaard has to teach us about the secret plot of Bridget Jones's Diary. And The Godfather. And the Iliad. And our own lives, too. Read all about it in my latest piece for The Spectator: thomaswhodgkinson.com/features/the-k…

I’m trying to be as much of a dick as possible now—so when I’m successful, no one can say I changed.

In The Times, our writer Thomas W. Hodgkinson reviews a compelling history of the “like” button, co-written by our Trustee Martin Reeves. lims.ac.uk/perspectives/l…

What is Britain doing about Donald J. Trump's science spending cuts? Not much, is the short answer. For the longer answer, read this excellent piece in The Spectator by an American scientist who already crossed the Atlantic: lims.ac.uk/perspectives/t…

REBEL WITH A CAUSE The BitMEX billionaire Ben Delo tells me how he made a fortune in crypto, the time he watched the Queen's funeral with Jordan Peterson, and why he loves the London Institute. perspectivemedia.com/ben-delo/

The word anagram, gratifyingly, is itself an anagram of raga man.

I don't normally specialise in vitriol but this is a sacred cow I've been longing to slaughter. 1000 words of bile in The Times about the joke vacuum that is Richard Curtis's Notting Hill. thomaswhodgkinson.com/features/notti…