The Gough Map
The oldest map of Great Britain has now been made interactive by Oxford University. You can zoom in, put on overlays, and generally muck about with it right here.
Anthony Zacharzewski
No carrier
Plans to trial text and email voting in the 2006 local elections have been abandoned.
How Poland can qualify for the World Cup
The complex equation, in Polish at 90 Minut.
I wanna sell you a Tory
Duncan O’Leary over at Demos Greenhouse looks on the bright side for the Tory party. The news stories may have been division, division and more division (oh, and dumping Europe) over the last six months, but at least, he says, the Tories have had a proper debate about the
Better train times
The National Rail website has vastly improved its journey planner.
Jack Lang & the French constitution
Socialist and presidential outsider Jack Lang has published a book (Changer), with his proposals for (among other things) political and constitutional reform in France, including 4 year terms for public office, renewable once, and the end of the cumul – the practice of multiple office-holding. Le Figaro discusses.
European constitution, RIP
And so, like a fairly distant relative who’s been ill for a long time, the European constitution project is dead. Has to go down as one of Europe’s many wasted opportunities, and it won’t be the last.
Link via Fistful of Euros.
Purcell and doggerel verse
I was listening to Henry Purcell’s Odes and Welcome Songs on the way home. They’re worth a listen if you haven’t – various songs for birthdays, arrivals or general celebrations of the monarchy, plus some for Saint Cecilia’s Day (22 November). As always with Purcell, the English
38% of Americans want creationism taught instead of evolution
The Enlightenment has ended in America. It was nice while it lasted.
Why? Take a look at the depressing and astonishing results from a survey on creationism, reported in the New York Times today.
In brief, 64% of Americans are open to the idea of teaching creationist pseudoscience alongside established
Scumbag of the week...
…is Sam Pennington, from Hastings, who was convicted today of dragging a badly-injured friend a mile cross-country to try and pretend that her injuries weren’t caused by his driving at 65 mph down a country lane and crashing into a bank. The friend died in hospital the following day.