Ian Martin
BlogsNews Junkie: 05 and 06 January
In this issue: Salisbury gets a multiple facelift, destroying MRSA with lightning, and the deadly threat from low-energy lightbulbs...
BlogsChristmas news junkie
In this festive issue...joy-killing carbonistas, bonkers Christmas lights and absolutely the best Mail headline of the year.
OpinionHeadlines you may have missed in 2007
Ian Martin looks back at some of the more unusual headlines from 2007
OpinionFinally, the correct version of Tamworth
In his final hop round the multiverses, Ian Martin briefly visits a Midlands utopia
NewsNews Junkie: 08 and 09 December
This week: sad policemen, thick consultants, Facebook mortgage buddies, cocoa architectural models and a ravishing Marcus Binney.
BlogsNews Junkie: 01 and 02 December
This week: a Scottish fisherman gets in Trump's way, a new phone measures your carbon smugness, and a hapless Clive Aslet Googles a house of panties.
OpinionAre you revered as a global visionary genius?
Ian Martin discovers how an obscure architect in our reality might be a superstar in a parallel world
BlogsNews Junkie: 24 and 25 November
Coming up: design tips for a 'hibernacula', an intriguing theory about the 'multiverse', and what the wally with the brolly has done with his lolly...
OpinionA day trip to swinging post-war Britain
Ian Martin finds the multiverse in chaos after some ill-advised internet posting
BlogsNews Junkie: 17 and 18 November
This week: elderly art forgers, fat rabbits, 'pockets of pain' and an unhappy Mr. Blair...
OpinionLe Corbusier’s secret napkin formula
This week, Ian Martin and his mate Beansy channel-hop into several universes all containing Le Corbusier — but which is the right one?
BlogsNews Junkie: 10 and 11 November
This week: virtual smoking, loft conversions for squirrels, and how fund managers are cashing in on global warming.
BlogsNews Junkie: 03 and 04 November
The Smithfield carve-up goes to public inquiry, a non-existent asylum centre is priced at £35 million, and a To Don't list ends with lunchtime drinking and coffin-carrying...
OpinionSame place, different epic space-time...
This week Ian Martin’s multiverse channel hopper is stuck at 66 Portland Place
BlogsNews Junkie: 27 and 28 October
Facing oblivion this week: another Owen Luder landmark (redevelopment), all Hackney's Banksy graffiti (municipal power spray), The Midlands (mischievous new map) and 'the cheerful disposition of Londoners' (traffic congestion).
OpinionFurther adventures across the multiverse
Ian Martin continues his journey through parallel realities
OpinionExploring Beansy’s multiverse: Part One
Ian Martin finds out what life is like in a selection of parallel universes
NewsNews Junkie: 20 and 21 October
This week’s mysteries: Why one education authority is making pupils have chips at lunchtime, why people in Bradford can’t have their cake and eat it, and why Quentin Blake’s created a big friendly giant illustration…
NewsNews Junkie: 13 and 14 October
Why has Quinlan Terry been fined £25, 000? Why was Ken Livingstone kissing Zaha Hadid? Why is a classics teacher in Buckinghamshire suffering from nausea and headaches? It's a busy, busy built environment out there...
- Review
Geo-engineering our brave new world
Ian Martin does some heavy thinking about taffeta and eco-system modification