Mine's the tomato soup with Asian spice, easy on the Mexican bits
Who Are We?
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novel filmed with Arthur C. Clarke in a supporting role: "The village was called Beddagama, which...
The Indo-Aryan Languages
A History of Roget's Thesaurus
Blooming English
Politeness
New-Dialect Formation
The Invention of Cuneiform
Malicious Cryptography
The Government Machine
The Robot's Rebellion
Growing up with Lucy
A Hacker Manifesto
People who Live in the Dark
Universities are considering putting part of the income from top-up fees into cash awards to attract bright students, rather than restricting their bursary programmes to applicants from poor...