Category Archives: Blather

We were talking to Mary Midgley about her schooldays this evening, and she said that in the Thirties, when she was at achool at Downe House, many of the girls kept on their bedside tables photographs which showed their sisters … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“When one is making out one’s weekly budget, two and two invariably make four. Politics, on the other hand, is a sort of sub-atomic or non-Euclidean world where it is quite easy for the part to be greater than the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If they sequenced the DNA of an American student, would she become an example of open source coed? Continue reading →

The FWB has come up with a security advisory Continue reading →

You could tell this was a proper literary party from the exclamations of disgust that greeted the doggy bags that had slim volumes of poetry1 in them. There is always one book on the shortlist that you want, three you’d … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t know, and can’t easily imagine, what the reaction would be in other countries if a powerful newspaper announced that the Minister of Justice wanted DNA tests done to establish that he, and not her husband, was the father … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Anyone who sent me email in the last four days might want to resend it. This domain fell off the internet because the notice to renew my lease on the name went to a contact address I had slaughtered in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Leningrad Cowboys have competition. We finally got round to watching A mighty wind last night, Christopher Guest’s take on folk music, and it took about ten minutes longer than the running time, simply because we kept laughing so hard … Continue reading → Continue reading →

But I would like to know if these acknowledgements were ever published in a real book. (via ) Continue reading →

Reaching for a squeegee flask of Original Source Tea Tree and Mint shower gel, I see it promises me “the most motivating shower experience you have ever had.” Where were these guys at school? The most motivating shower experience I … Continue reading → Continue reading →