Flanders and Flanders
Interesting fact of which I was not aware: Stephanie Flanders (the BBC journalist) is the daughter of Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann fame. Flanders and Swann Online – Lyrics sorted by Title. He died when she was 7.
Anthony Zacharzewski
The original Crystal Maze
I’m in Paris this evening, and have come home after dinner (I have an early train to Barcelona) to a bizarre but rather engaging French game show on France 2 called Fort Boyard. It’s a puzzles-and-physical-challenges show set in a real Napoleonic fort on a sandbank off the
The happiest place on earth
The BBC reports that Brightonians are th happiest and most positive people in the UK.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
A famous essay from 1964, here.
Well, at least the US isn't burning them. Yet.
A reminder for Dick Cheney from chapter 15 of
In the year 1487 there was a severe storm in Switzerland, which laid waste the country for four miles around Constance. Two wretched old women, whom the popular voice had long accused of witchcraft, were arrested on the preposterous charge of
Even now
An apt cartoon from 1983.
5 All out
North Yorkshire club side gets all out for 5. Cricinfo reports.
Free public transport?
San Francisco tried it for a few days. Metafilter reports.
A poem for the txtr generation
A good poem on abbreviated poetry posted on rec.arts.poems.
Tristram Hunt celebrates dissent
Tristram Hunt writes an excellent opinion piece in the Guardian, asking for people to pay more attention to, and to celebrate, Britain’s history of dissent and radicalism. It’s not all Kings, Queens and village greens, he points out.