The Spanish don't think this way
Overheard on the bus, a (true) comment that shows the difference between the English and Spanish shopping cultures. “Well, I don’t like going to the market for my vegetables. They’re never as fresh, are they?”
Topic
Random thoughts
A collection of 16 issues
Why we vote
Because these guys do, too. Oh, and him.
Christian attitude != looking forward to a global holocaust.
Not just for breakfast any more
On the way to London. People drinking beer on the train is not an uncommon sight. But on the 0844?!
Acronym Fight!
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
versus
Mother I’d Like to … (MILF)
The curse of relevance
In the cultural or academic worlds, ‘relevance’ is surely the most horrendous concept ever invented. Whether it’s people wondering “what’s the point” of studying Anglo-Saxon, or directors sticking cack-handed references to Iraq war into Monteverdi, it’s based on the fundamental principle that there are no eternal verities,
Privacy and rationality
Two nice quotes from this week’s New York Review. First, Clive James on Philip Larkin:
Always averse to the requirements of celebrity, he didn’t find out enough about them, and never realised that beyond a certain point of fame you not only don’t have a private life