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U.K. Fears for Its Beer and Crumpets. Blame a Carbon Dioxide Shortage.

New top story on Hacker News: Sphericons (2006)

San Francisco Is So Expensive, You Can Make Six Figures and Still Be ‘Low Income’

After 40 Days Apart and a Missed Flight, a Migrant Family Reunites

New top story on Hacker News: OceanGate submersible hits Titanic depth of 4,000 meters

New top story on Hacker News: Forget in a Flash: A Further Investigation of the Photo-Taking-Impairment Effect

New top story on Hacker News: Web developers: Fire yourself if you can’t do this

New top story on Hacker News: Clojure Error Messages Are Accidental

New top story on Hacker News: The tools humanity will need for living in the year 1 trillion

New top story on Hacker News: Greek numerals

New top story on Hacker News: Performance of the 8088 on PC, PCjr and Tandy 1000

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists are studying what it takes to kill “super coral”

War Robbed Him of His Family, Then His Eyes, Then His Love

A Long Journey North for Migrants That May End Where It Started

Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque — and Angry

Kennedy’s Retirement Could Threaten Efforts to End Partisan Gerrymandering

SURFACING: Conjuring Spirits in Florida

Spain’s Migrant Wave Grows, Even as Europe’s Subsides

New top story on Hacker News: React from zero: a simple tutorial for React

New top story on Hacker News: Space Invaders from Scratch – Part 5

New top story on Hacker News: Most comprehensive data structure / Big O overview

New top story on Hacker News: Google De-lists AntiPolygraph.org on Key Search Terms

New top story on Hacker News: Can France Create Its Own MIT?

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Smart Fruit – A Python schema-based machine learning library

New top story on Hacker News: Facial recognition rolled out by London police sparking human rights concerns

New top story on Hacker News: Archaeologists armed with spears demonstrate how Neanderthals hunted

New top story on Hacker News: Bayesian Networks – An Introduction (2016)

New top story from Time: This Picture of Geoffrey the Giraffe Waving Goodbye Is Upsetting Lots of Toys ‘R’ Us Kids

New top story from Time: Former Capital Gazette Editor Says He Warned Newsroom About Suspect, but Police Said They Couldn’t Arrest Him

New top story from Time: Worried About Roe v. Wade? These Activists Have Been Coping With Severe Abortion Restrictions for Years

New top story from Time: ‘This Is a Moment of Great Urgency.’ Former President Barack Obama Tries to Mobilize Democrats at Fundraiser Event

New top story from Time: The ‘Abolish ICE’ Movement Is Growing. Here’s Why the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Was Created

New top story from Time: A Father and Son Who Disagree Over President Trump Are Running Against Each Other for the Same Seat

New top story on Hacker News: Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe

New top story on Hacker News: Boeing is making a long-term play for hypersonic travel

New top story on Hacker News: Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

More Americans Evacuated From China Over Mysterious Ailments

3 Black U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Hate Crime

Accused Gunman in Capital Gazette Shooting Left a Trail of Conflicts

How ‘Abolish ICE’ Went From Social Media to Progressive Candidates’ Rallying Cry

U.K. Fears for Its Beer and Crumpets. Blame a Carbon Dioxide Shortage.

A Place by a Lake or in the Woods: the Canada Letter

Migration Deal in Europe Makes No Commitments. Victory Is Declared.

Gunman’s Rampage Turned Quiet Newsroom Into Chaos

For Local Newspapers, Angry Readers Are a Given. But Killings Send Shivers.

G.M. Says New Wave of Trump Tariffs Could Force U.S. Job Cuts

The Firebrand Leftist Far Ahead in Mexico’s Presidential Polls

1 Neighborhood. 24 Kindergarten Classes. 40 Languages. (Some Miming Helps.)

Prankster Calls the President, and the White House Puts Him Right Through

Here Are the Biggest Stories in American Politics This Week

Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer

Trump Says He Will Announce Supreme Court Pick on July 9

Newspaper Shooting Shows Widening Use of Facial Recognition by Authorities

Video Shows Police Officer Firing Stun Gun at Unarmed Man Sitting on Curb

Impeached President Rousseff of Brazil Pursues a Senate Seat

After 40 Days Apart and a Missed Flight, a Migrant Family Reunites

Syrian Assault Flouts U.S.-Backed Cease-Fire and Sets Off New Exodus

Francisco J. Ayala, Famed Biologist, Resigns After Sexual Harassment Inquiry

N.S.A. Purges Hundreds of Millions of Call and Text Records

General Motors, Migrants, ICE: Your Friday Evening Briefing

BBC Apologizes to Carrie Gracie, Former China Editor, Over Unequal Pay

Condemning Deadly Newsroom Shooting, Trump Tempers Hostility Toward Media

China Taps the Brakes on Its Global Push for Influence

‘Shaken’ Rosenstein Felt Used by White House in Comey Firing

Fact Check of the Day: Kudlow Falsely Claims Deficit Is ‘Coming Down Rapidly’

New top story on Hacker News: Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say

New top story on Hacker News: Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first four months of 2018

New top story on Hacker News: Show your projects in motion with animated GIFs

New top story on Hacker News: Extracting Super Mario Bros levels with Python

New top story on Hacker News: Huygens: Scalable, Fine-grained Clock Synchronization [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Taking Another Person’s Perspective Doesn’t Help You Understand Them

New top story on Hacker News: Data Structures Reference

New top story on Hacker News: Readme-Driven Development (2010)

New top story on Hacker News: Darpa invests $100M in a silicon compiler

New top story on Hacker News: EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law

New top story on Hacker News: How a Chinese businessman became the largest supplier of pyrotechnics in the US

New top story on Hacker News: Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting

New top story on Hacker News: Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US

New top story on Hacker News: An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python

New top story on Hacker News: From Boy Geniuses to Mad Scientists: Americans and Science (2017)

New top story on Hacker News: I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: The Program – A fictional podcast inspired by Hacker News stories

New top story on Hacker News: Eight low-tech ways to keep cool in a heatwave (2013)

New top story on Hacker News: Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

New top story on Hacker News: There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives human lifespan debate

New top story on Hacker News: Debugging data flows in reactive programs

New top story on Hacker News: Breaking LTE on Layer Two

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R, Part 2

New top story on Hacker News: Reverse Engineering for Beginners

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What's the best way to handle internal tech support?

New top story on Hacker News: Online museum of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software

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New top story on Hacker News: The Life and Death of Teletext

New top story on Hacker News: How to Steal 50M Bees

New top story on Hacker News: A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Build dApp front-ends using GraphQL

Wikipedia article of the day for June 30, 2018

New top story on Hacker News: Thousands of Apps Leak Sensitive Data via Misconfigured Firebase Back Ends

New top story on Hacker News: Headless Chrome HTML to PDF Rendering as an API, 1-click Deploy

Thailand Cave Rescue Mission Will Continue, Prime Minister Tells Families

New top story on Hacker News: Gentoo's GitHub Organization Was Hacked

California Today: California Today: Making Earthquake Safety More Intelligible

After 40 Days Apart, a Migrant Family Reunites

The Saturday Profile: From Jewish Saint, to Israeli Pol, to Would-Be Statesman

New top story from Time: ‘I Thought I Was Going To Die.’ Capital Gazette Intern Describes Chaos During Deadly Newsroom Shooting

New top story on Hacker News: Rewards of Up to $500,000 Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days

New top story on Hacker News: Come work with a team of badass women and men – The Muse is hiring an Eng Manager

New top story on Hacker News: Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal

New top story on Hacker News: TCP small queues and WiFi aggregation – a war story

New top story on Hacker News: Airbnb could plan to IPO by late 2020

New top story on Hacker News: Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows

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New top story from Time: This Year’s Wimbledon Could Give Tennis Fans Another Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal Classic

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Supreme Court, Capital Gazette, ‘Sicario’: Your Friday Briefing

Update: With Ban Upheld, Travel Industry Urges a Welcome for Tourists

The Army Denied This Black Soldier a Commission in 1942. Now It’s Making Amends.

New top story on Hacker News: Roman Holidays

New top story on Hacker News: How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers

New top story on Hacker News: Tesla opens the Model 3 reservation floodgates

New top story on Hacker News: SICP Goodness – Why you don't need looping constructs

New top story on Hacker News: Japan's 'Naked Hermit' Pried from Island Utopia After 29 Years

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is one Vim trick most people don't know?

New top story on Hacker News: That Time I Had Steve Jobs Keynote at Unix Expo

New top story from Time: The U.S. and Japan Agree to Continue Joint Military Exercises

New top story from Time: South Korean Men Will Soon be Able to Choose an Alternative to Mandatory Military Service

New top story from Time: A Gunman Killed Five People at the Capital Gazette Newspaper. This Is Their Front Page After the Attack

New top story from Time: What to Know About the Suspected Capital Gazette Shooter

New top story from Time: These Are the Victims of the Capital Gazette Shooting

New top story on Hacker News: Internet is losing its memory: Vint Cerf

New top story on Hacker News: The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning

5 People Dead in Shooting at Maryland’s Capital Gazette Newsroom

Beijing Dispatch: Mao 101: Inside a Chinese Classroom Training the Communists of Tomorrow

Melania Trump Returns to the Border, This Time Without Subtext

On Washington: Denied a Filibuster, Democrats Eye Other Tactics in Supreme Court Fight

Who Is Jarrod Ramos, the Suspect in the Annapolis Newsroom Shooting?

The Victims of the Capital Gazette Newsroom Shooting

U.N. Cases Read Like ‘Manual in How Not to Investigate’ Sexual Assault

In Wisconsin Visit, Trump Cheers One Company and Criticizes Another

With Roe in the Balance, Two Republicans Hold High Court in Their Hands

Is the Future of the Supreme Court in the Hands of These 2 Senators?

With Kennedy Gone, Roberts Will Be the Supreme Court’s Swing Vote

Political War Over Replacing Kennedy on Supreme Court Is Underway

‘This Is Intimidation’: Interview With ICE Whistle-Blower Is Interrupted by Federal Agents

White House Memo: In Meeting With Putin, Experts Fear Trump Will Give More Than He Gets

Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash

Mother Is Reunited With Her Child After Family Separation Practice Ends

For Conservatives, Court Fight Is on Their Turf and in Their D.N.A.

Letter 64: ‘Somewhere in Australia,’ Explained

‘Please Help Us’: As Shots Rang Out, Journalists Took to Twitter

Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening

Far-Right Cell Plotted Attack on French Muslims, Authorities Say

Britain Abetted U.S. Torture of Terrorism Suspects, Parliament Finds

Former ICE Lawyer Who Stole Immigrants’ Identities Gets 4 Years in Prison

Maryland, Supreme Court, Russia: Your Thursday Evening Briefing

Will a Shocker in New York Have a Ripple Effect in Massachusetts?

Ex-Aide to Roger Stone Is Subpoenaed in Russia Investigation

I.R.S. Nominee Says He Won’t Weaponize Agency

For Survivors of Japanese Internment Camps, Court’s Korematsu Ruling Is ‘Bittersweet’

New top story on Hacker News: One-Shot Imitation from Watching Videos

New top story on Hacker News: Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

New top story on Hacker News: Hiring engineers to help change education at Clever (YC S12)

New top story on Hacker News: Understanding Latent Style

New top story on Hacker News: Exactis Data Breach May Have Leaked Personal Data of Almost Every American Adult

New top story on Hacker News: Jaun de Fuca

New top story on Hacker News: Classic 1984 video game Robot Odyssey available online

New top story on Hacker News: The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber

New top story on Hacker News: A Peek Inside the Niantic Real World AR Platform

New top story on Hacker News: Content Snare: Leaving a job to build a +$1K/month SaaS business

New top story on Hacker News: A Sea Change Coming for Water Cooling in Datacenters

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend

New top story on Hacker News: The Brief, Incredibly Poetic Life of Bañec Hazyblockades: A Dwarf Fortress Diary

New top story on Hacker News: Blair Enns: Words That Make Us Wince

New top story on Hacker News: Harlan Ellison has died

New top story on Hacker News: Scottish bookstore lets people run the shop while renting an apartment upstairs

New top story on Hacker News: Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade

New top story on Hacker News: How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware

New top story on Hacker News: New GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Change the Balance of Power on the TOP500

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Brex (YC W17) – Corporate Credit Card for Startups

New top story on Hacker News: Former Equifax Manager Charged with Insider Trading

New top story on Hacker News: We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: A Bank for Student Hackers

New top story on Hacker News: The Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter in AV1

New top story on Hacker News: State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Django Newbie Mistakes

New top story on Hacker News: Recreating Python's Slice Syntax in JavaScript Using ES6 Proxies

New top story on Hacker News: Switzerland's mysterious fourth language

New top story on Hacker News: A cheap way of storing information in DNA

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: DeepSpeech based automated transcription service

New top story on Hacker News: Reasoning

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Wikipedia article of the day for June 29, 2018

Trump and Putin Choose Helsinki for First Summit Meeting

Rescue Team in Thailand to Drill Into Cave to Try to Reach Trapped Boys

South Korea Must Offer Civilian Alternatives to Military Service, Court Rules

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New top story on Hacker News: Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners

New top story on Hacker News: Negative Base

Mattis, in South Korea, Affirms ‘Ironclad’ Alliance Despite Halt to Drills

Merkel Says Migration Could Make or Break the E.U.

Justice Kennedy Is Retiring. What Happens Now?

New top story on Hacker News: The haunting surrealism of Victor Brauner

New top story on Hacker News: Quasimusic: music from quasiperiodic tilings (2012)

White Supremacists’ Use of Campus Propaganda Is Soaring, Report Finds

Australia Approves Sweeping Security Laws Targeting Foreign Interference

Supreme Court Ruling Delivers a Sharp Blow to Labor Unions

Anthony Kennedy, Immigration, World Cup: Your Thursday Briefing

Fire at Nairobi Market Kills at Least 15

Mexican Soccer Fans’ New Champions: The South Korean Squad

Cities Cut Government Contracts for Immigrant Detention as Protests Grow

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What should we consider when moving to a service mesh architecture?

New top story on Hacker News: Should every programmer learn C as their first programming language?

New top story on Hacker News: Spain leads the world in organ donation. What’s stopping other countries?

New top story on Hacker News: Kubernetes 1.11: In-Cluster Load Balancing and CoreDNS Plugin Graduate to GA

New top story on Hacker News: Scientists develop thermal camouflage that can fool infrared cameras

New top story on Hacker News: Don’t Learn TensorFlow! Start with Keras or PyTorch Instead

New top story on Hacker News: Beating mini-hearts that could save money, and maybe lives

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Shotsnapp – Create beautiful device mockup presentation

New top story on Hacker News: Three Common Misconceptions About China

China Won’t Yield ‘Even One Inch’ of South China Sea, Xi Tells Mattis

New top story on Hacker News: Cell carriers to stop sharing real-time cell phone location data

Shanghai Knife Attack Kills Two Schoolchildren

New top story on Hacker News: StreetLearn: Learning to navigate in cities without a map

New top story from Time: International Experts from the U.S. and U.K. Join the Search for 12 Missing Thai Boys and Their Coach

New top story on Hacker News: Why ActivityPub is the future

New top story on Hacker News: Remix is hiring Software Engineers and Managers to build more livable cities

New top story on Hacker News: How not to structure database-backed web apps: performance bugs in the wild

New top story on Hacker News: BBC releases its computer history archive

New top story on Hacker News: Google Play Store’s Algorithm Quietly Changes, Tanking Some Apps’ Rankings

New top story on Hacker News: China’s social credit system ‘could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty’

New top story on Hacker News: Cool Retro Terminal

New top story on Hacker News: Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

New top story on Hacker News: Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

New top story on Hacker News: AI Can Detect Illnesses in Human Breath

New top story on Hacker News: Test-Driven Web Development with Python – The Book

New top story on Hacker News: AT&T raises most customers' fees by $1.23, adding $800M revenue

New top story on Hacker News: How Tree Trunks Are Cut to Produce Wood with Different Appearances and Uses

New top story on Hacker News: Mathematician-M.D. claims to have solved the 110-year-old Lindelöf hypothesis

New top story on Hacker News: Mobile Airbag Deploy When Device Is Dropped

New top story on Hacker News: Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview

New top story on Hacker News: Exposing the secret Office 365 detailed activity logs and forensics tool

New top story on Hacker News: I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering a Phone’s Mic When Hidden Signal Plays on TV

New top story on Hacker News: An Airline Fee That Exists for No Apparent Reason

New top story on Hacker News: Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub

New top story on Hacker News: Self-Supervised Tracking via Video Colorization

New top story on Hacker News: Sounds of moving objects change perceptions of body size

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: The Lobby (YC W18) – 1-on-1 calls with company insiders to get hired

New top story on Hacker News: Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can't solve

New top story on Hacker News: Supercharging the Git Commit Graph

New top story on Hacker News: What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Muzoti – Algorithmic Music with Web Audio/Midi and VueJS

New top story on Hacker News: Three facts from “Our World in Data” that everyone should know

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook’s retreat from the news business

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Wikipedia article of the day for June 28, 2018

Trump Backs Softer Restrictions on Chinese Investment

Netherlands Approves Partial Ban on Face Coverings

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Will Retire

What Would an Expanded Foreign Investment Committee Do?

No, Harley-Davidson’s C.E.O. Did Not Punch Back at Trump

Rescue Ship Docks in Malta as 8 Nations Agree to Take Its Migrants

E.U. Leader Warns of ‘Worst-Case Scenarios,’ Citing Trump

As Cameroon English Speakers Fight to Break Away, Violence Mounts

Trump, at Rally, Vows to Carry On Anthony Kennedy’s Legacy With Court Pick

Kennedy Retirement Injects an Inflammatory New Issue Into Midterms

As Jobs Go Unfilled, U.S. Employers Vie to Hire Foreign Laborers

Fact Check of the Day: Democrats Cite McConnell’s Precedent to Delay Supreme Court Hearings. ...

Top Democrat’s Defeat Throws Party Leadership Into Turmoil

News Analysis: In Influence if Not in Title, This Has Been the Kennedy Court

Departure of Kennedy, ‘Firewall for Abortion Rights,’ Imperils Roe v. Wade

U.N. Reports Sharp Increase in Children Killed or Maimed in Conflicts

News Analysis: Trump Gets Chance to Influence American Life for Generations Through Supreme ...

Other Countries Forge Ahead on Crypto Regulations

A Victory for Coral: Unesco Removes Belize Reef From Its Endangered List

Fans of XXXTentacion React to His Public Memorial on Social Media

O.P.C.W., Chemical Weapons Watchdog, Gets Power to Assign Blame

Pompeo Outlines Plans for Global Challenges, Including Venezuela and Palestinian Refugees

Phil Rodgers, ‘Brashest Man in Golf,’ Is Dead at 80

What the Janus Decision Means for Teacher Unions

‘Leave My Husband Alone’: Elaine Chao Confronts Immigration Protesters

Benghazi Attacker Gets 22 Years, Disappointing Prosecutors Who Sought Life

The Major Cases Where Justice Kennedy Left His Mark

New top story on Hacker News: I Helped Design the ‘Machine Learning President’ Game

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New top story on Hacker News: Neural Titanic: A TensorFlow.js demo

New top story on Hacker News: How to Make a Curation Website in 20 Minutes

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New top story on Hacker News: 3 Simple C++17 Features That Will Make Your Code Simpler

New top story on Hacker News: An open source Global Navigation Satellite Systems software-defined receiver

New top story on Hacker News: Flights to Rome

New top story on Hacker News: Quines and Multi-Quines (2005)

‘We Won’t Abandon Them’: Search for Boys in Cave Rivets Thailand

18 Ways to Navigate Stress at the Airport

In Hong Kong, Where Guns Are Rare, Deadly Shooting Shocks Residents

Supreme Court, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, World Cup: Your Wednesday Briefing

BULLETIN BOARD: Our International Report Becomes a Bit More Modern

If He Didn’t Kill Anyone, Why Is It Murder?

In Eastern Europe, Militaries Gird Against Russian Might and Manipulation

A Nightmare for Mexico’s Soccer Opponents: More Chuckys On the Way

Tropical Forests Suffered Near-Record Tree Losses in 2017

4 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Primary Elections

A Flamingo? In Texas? A Zoo Fugitive Since 2005 Is Still Surviving in the Wild

Fact Check of the Day: No, Democrats Don’t Want ‘Open Borders’

New top story on Hacker News: Another 10 years of Internet evolution

New top story on Hacker News: Toward Psychoinformatics: Computer Science Meets Psychology (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: The impossibility—and the necessity—of distinguishing science from nonscience

New top story on Hacker News: Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft reaches cosmic 'diamond'

New top story on Hacker News: Canada Is Preparing Steel Quotas, Tariffs on China and Others

Australia Diary: The Poetry of Urban Angst

New top story on Hacker News: Anti-If: The missing patterns (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: China Mines Silicon Valley for Tech Talent

New top story on Hacker News: PostmarketOS is #movingtogitlab

New top story from Time: Dutch Lawmakers Have Passed a Partial Ban on Wearing a Burqas in Public Places

New top story from Time: China’s Veterans Are Taking to the Streets, Posing a Challenge to Xi Jinping’s Nationalist Image

New top story on Hacker News: A Quiet Evening’s Reading: ‘Notable British Trials’