With over 600 pages of good-quality paper, his is a massive three-decked battleship of a book, in general handsomely produced, but let down by some poorly designed colour plates, including a number of reversed images.

ECONOMIST: British naval history

Cotswold District Council said it had received a small number of objections about the colour and size, raised by some residents whose homes were near or overlooked the play area, but said the scheme was the developer's responsibility.

BBC: The playground when it was fenced off

For instance, the first presentation might be of four cards, each with a number on one side and a colour on the other.

ECONOMIST: Psychopathy

These so-called quantitative traits are under the control of a number of different genes acting in concert as opposed to qualitative traits such as human eye colour, where a difference in a single gene produces a single, sharp distinction.

ECONOMIST: A genetic game of chicken