When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

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Simon Hoggart was parliamentary sketch writer for the Guardian for 20 years, and wrote for the newspaper for 45 years. He was a regular columnist for New Humanist during the early 2000s. He died in ...