DON’T MAUNDER ON TRYING TO MINIMIZE THIS: Solar activity heads for lowest low in four centuries. “Lockwood thinks there is now a 25 per cent chance of a repetition of the last grand minimum, the late 17th century Maunder Minimum, when there were no sunspots for 70 years. Two years ago, Lockwood put the chances of this happening at less than 10 per cent.” But, he says, human warming will prevent a Little Ice Age.

Er, Fallen Angels was science fiction, right guys? Right?