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On November 20th we were lucky enough to enjoy a visit from A Level chemists of The King Alfred School Academy in Somerset. As traders we are privileged to see elements in metallic form which normally cost schools a King Henry VIII-style king's ransom to stock. So, how better to inspire students than to see much of the periodic table at an office in Hampton Court? A place where chemistry's history is all around us - Michael Faraday's house round the corner, and Hampton Court

Many will have read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book ‘Love in the time of Cholera’; a story of unrequited love in a crumbling Spanish...

For those who will miss Tom Lehrer

Thoughts on the recently announced US Dept of Defence-MP Partnership Last week MP Materials, which operates the Mountain Pass mine in...

Complicated? Heterodox Economics is not for the faint hearted. I slipped gently into a different pond last week - The Association of...

See the Soviets maps planned for the inevitable Soviet/Communist triumph over Western capitalism

Metal traders know about Chile's copper exports - but how much do they know about Pinochet's murderous regime? The torture and disappearances assisted by Nazi SS officer Walther Rauff designer of the vans used or killing Jews with carbon monoxide in WW2. Now via refrigerated vans to transport political prisoners silently around the country, to places of torture and incineration. Sands explains why Pinochet's arrest in London by petition of Spain does not result in his extradi

Children of Radium A Buried Inheritance By Joe Dunthorne Hamish Hamilton   Siegfried, the author’s Wagnerian-named Jewish great...

Concentrate on the kgs, and the tons will follow