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<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/andy_mcsmith/index.html" target="_blank">Andy McSmith: Brown in a black hole</a>

Tuesday 16 September 2008 11:28 BST
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Having returned safely form the CERN centre in Switzerland, I find an email awaiting me from a Labour MP, saying "so you've got away from the black hole that wasn't - now for Manchester, and the real black hole."

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