Automaton West writer. Zoto has been playing video games for 30+ years now but has only recently come to grips with PC gaming. When he isn't playing video games, he watches romance anime and gets mad ...

Read our review of The Invention of Love, starring Simon Russell Beale as A. E. Housman, now in performances at the Hampstead Theatre to 1 February 2025. It may seem odd in a Tom Stoppard play to find ...

This is what the play is about: the invention of love – and the fact that it is reinvented every time it’s felt. Not to mention the fact you’ll feel about a thousand times cleverer after ...

I saw this Tom Stoppard drama when it premiered at the National in 1997, the year I graduated from university, and it troubled me greatly. This new production marks the first major revival and I ...

Penned in 1997, this is Stoppard at his most dazzling and his most frustrating: lapping tides of stuffy self-referentiality, self-congratulatory smirks, and pats on the back for every reference ...

In an interview at the time of the first production of The Invention of Love in 1997, Tom Stoppard said he’d spent so long researching its hero AE Housman that he could have written a PhD about him.

While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, older British ...

Most of my earliest core memories are of finding great joy in taking things apart. As far back as I can remember, taking things apart to learn how they work has been a major motivating factor in my ...

This is a really interesting video about something called the gang-nail plate, a construction innovation that enabled larger roofs to be built on houses, removed the need for internal load-bearing ...

But over all, you should read it! The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a great book. The pictures are magnificent and the words flow together perfectly. There is not much to really look out for a child ...

Discover the complex history of the automobile, from early self-propelled vehicles to Karl Benz's invention of the first modern car, and explore the key innovators who shaped the cars we drive today.