These boots were made for walking
In London and want to avoid pollution? Walk – but whatever you do, don’t take a taxi.
Anthony Zacharzewski
People power!
Spotted on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex – Hudson’s soap is for the
people, unlike those other soaps that are for the
Establishment, for the Church or perhaps for Aston Villa.
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Notes on Galloway
Just came across a section of George Orwell’s “Notes on Nationalism” that perfectly sums up George Galloway:
There is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one
Whatever happened to...
The forty different people Mark E. Smith has sacked from the Fall.
Caught short
Tim Harford in Slate reports on how you can get a good coffee in Starbucks – a previously unknown phenomenon.
Show some respect
Repulsive self-publicist George Galloway, the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, has shown exactly what he thinks both of his duties as a Parliamentarian and of his constituents by becoming a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother.
Celebrity Big Brother lasts for 23 days, during which time the citizens of my
Perhaps with a bang, or a whimper
Exit Mundi looks at all the ways the world could end – right now!
Ave, Vicipedia!
Wikipedia is available in many languages, including Igbo (Nigerian language, 18m speakers, 2 articles), Muscogee (1 article), Venetian – the local language of Venice (33 articles), Cornish (600+ articles), and Catalan (23,000+ articles).
My favourite: Latin!, which astonishingly has more articles (4,000) than either Welsh or Irish.
Death to Kingswest!
Excellent news in today’s Argus – the City council are planning to redevelop Brighton’s main shopping area, extending the Churchill Square shopping area to give shoppers more of a sense of being near the sea and – joy of joys! – knocking down the Kingswest and Brighton Centres to replace them
Nuclear option
Does Russia’s action in restricting gas supplies to the West strengthen the case for nuclear power? A Fistful of Euros discusses.