All articles by Ian Martin
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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...
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BlogsChristmas news junkie
In this festive issue...joy-killing carbonistas, bonkers Christmas lights and absolutely the best Mail headline of the year.
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OpinionHeadlines you may have missed in 2007
Ian Martin looks back at some of the more unusual headlines from 2007
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OpinionFinally, the correct version of Tamworth
In his final hop round the multiverses, Ian Martin briefly visits a Midlands utopia
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NewsNews Junkie: 08 and 09 December
This week: sad policemen, thick consultants, Facebook mortgage buddies, cocoa architectural models and a ravishing Marcus Binney.
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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.
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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
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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...
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OpinionA day trip to swinging post-war Britain
Ian Martin finds the multiverse in chaos after some ill-advised internet posting
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BlogsNews Junkie: 17 and 18 November
This week: elderly art forgers, fat rabbits, 'pockets of pain' and an unhappy Mr. Blair...
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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?
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BlogsNews Junkie: 10 and 11 November
This week: virtual smoking, loft conversions for squirrels, and how fund managers are cashing in on global warming.
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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...
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OpinionSame place, different epic space-time...
This week Ian Martin’s multiverse channel hopper is stuck at 66 Portland Place
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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).
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OpinionFurther adventures across the multiverse
Ian Martin continues his journey through parallel realities
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OpinionExploring Beansy’s multiverse: Part One
Ian Martin finds out what life is like in a selection of parallel universes
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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…
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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...
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Review
Geo-engineering our brave new world
Ian Martin does some heavy thinking about taffeta and eco-system modification