I am not a great cinema goer, but unusually I went to see two films this weekend, and by coincidence they both had the related theme of the magic and the sea. Yet they could not be more different. Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief , is a very straightforward adventure story – an Americanised

Wigan will aim to avoid a hattrick of Magic Weekend drubbings by rivals St Helens at Murray field on May 2.

THE Government does not have a "magic wand" to protect the UK economy from the effects of the global economic crisis, Lord Mandelson has warned.

Look at this… It’s a neoprene bracelet with a hologram on it. Remember that. It’s made from the same stuff as wetsuits and a little hologram. It’s not just for decoration, though. It is a nifty bit of magic. I was told about it by a friend who said that surfers use them because they improve your

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For it is more important to be true to your wife than true to yourself, and more important to be true to your word than true to your desires. But there’s something to it all the same.

Pioneering “feel good” lessons Good to see that Cllr. Foreman is still able to wave his magic wand over the educationalists in South Tyneside as he sets new standards in well being and enabling children to reach their potential with a pioneering scheme, the result of his transatlantic trip to research ways to banish depression before

Polaroids have been in and out of my life properly for more than a quarter of a century, and before that for ten more years in very occasional extended friends and family use. A wonder. A miracle. An instant photograph but an object. Magic that defied imaginations as much as the original magic lantern, the Television, Chad Valley super-8, the properly mobile 'phone, Skype video conferencing, ...

Getting the institutions right matters. Many people simply don’t understand that issue. They don’t understand it because they still believe in magic. Few people believe that the chanting of magic words or incantations exercises power over the world. Most of us believe in cause and effect – in tracing out the effects to their causes. The scientific approach has been tr...

The American election was barely finished when the British parties started fighting over it like jackals rummaging round a freshly dead wildebeest. "We are the hope of change!" said the Tories. "We are the progressive party!" cried Labour. The prime minister began with praise for Senator Obama, to whom he had sent a message. "I know he will be a true friend of Britain," he said. This was not as st...