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New competition law baffles retired majors

In the final act of the hilarious school fee fixing scandal, the OFT has ruled that 50 independent schools may have broken competition law by telling each other what they were going to charge parents. This sort of information exchange, as you might imagine, is just slightly illegal. If the

Worried about the superbug? Read this

The ever-excellent Ben Goldacre discusses the fact-lite coverage of MRSA in the tabloids.

Back to the Future in Kaliningrad

BBC news reports that Kaliningrad (Królowiec, Koenigsberg) – the capital of that small sliver of Russia that used to be a bit of German East Prussia – is going to erect a statue, and name a square in honour of, one Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Given that the city’s existence in its

Secret underground city

The Sunday Times reports that the MoD is selling off Burlington, a massive nuclear fallout shelter designed to house the Queen, the Prime Minister and 4,000 civil servants. The city lies 120 feet underground in an old mine in the West Country – and with a rail connection from the

Flock's sake

If you were watching Newsnight this evening, you’ll have seen a classic bit of technojournalist gush over a ‘revolutionary’ new browser called Flock, that’s going to sweep away MSIE and is created by these extraordinary people called geeks who eat pizza and … oh, forget it. Anyway, the free

This post is backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

Oh. My. God. Civ IV is out. I didn’t even know it was close. Civ I and Civ II took SO much of my university and post-grad life. I have a short window until the Mac release comes out, but then… Thanks to MeFi for the post title.

India's flag

In a discussion on imperialism on Metafilter, someone said that the Indian flag had been patterned on the Irish tricolour, by way of solidarity between anti-imperialist national movements. I thought this sounded a bit odd, so did some research. The Indian flag, image from Flags of the World I’d

List of enacting formulae

Wikipedia has an international list of enacting formulae – the bits that go at the front of Acts of Parliament. Though not a monarchist by any means, I always think that the British enacting formula is pleasantly orotund: BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with

Iranian president: not a man we can do business with

Le Figaro reports that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, new president of Iran, has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’ – the first time for several years that an Iranian leader has made such a statement. The Paris government has condemned the statement. No sign of it on the British or

2,000 Dead

As the death toll of US service personnel in Iraq touches 2,000 (and, of course the death toll of Iraqis is much higher), the New York Times has a long piece profiling some of the families of the dead.