New for 2018. Live music and dance with a firework finale. Explore the Palace inside and out as history is brought to life. From the organisers of Christmas at Blenheim comes The Great British Garden Party. Blenheim Palace 13-14 July.

Review of Queen’s Lane Coffee House, Oxford: Good lunch

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark" - Stephen Hawking.