This week the Wellcome Trust Book Prize was awarded to ‘Circulation’, Thomas Wright’s biography of the revolutionary 17th-century physician William Harvey. Clive Cookson considers the fascinating – and often gory – life of the Englishman who discovered how blood is pumped around our bodies
The Diary: Jonathan Ford
M, an ex-armed robber, turns up at a forum on welfare cuts and asks the FT’s chief leader writer for his business card