Nick Page

Great story from the G20 summit today, when the Toronto Police put on a display of the dangerous weapons they had confiscated from protestors. The display was designed to respond to criticism of their heavy-handling of protestors and included a machete and baseball bat to bear spray and crowbars. the police chief particularly drew attention [...]

Just got an advance copy of the new One Stop Bible Atlas that I created for Lion. Here’s the blurb: An entirely new kind of Bible atlas, including: A wide range of contemporary mapping styles the latest archaeological and historical research lively text packed with useful information over 170 full-colour maps, photos and illustrations All [...]

Watching the world cup with all its usual English hysteria. The Germans look annoyingly good, however they do have a player called Schweinsteiger and, childish though it is, every time I hear that word I think of this scene from Young Frankenstein. He’s a good player. It goes without saying.

Hamstergate. Part 3000007. As some of you may know, a couple of weeks ago the hamster went missing (again). She’d previously escaped for nine weeks before being recaptured. Anyway, As if a missing hamster wasn’t enough, two days ago we came down to find that the hose to the dishwasher had been chewed through and [...]

The author of the Wallander series, was on board the convoy heading to Gaza. This is his record of events. And something of an alternative account here.

A friend of mine described his iPhone as a ‘transformational device’. He said it had changed the way that he worked and lived. I feel the same way about this iPad. Just a few minutes spent working on it convinced me that things were going to change – most notably in my industry, the publishing [...]