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Yearly Archives: 2005
The Brazilian Whacks
This week’s Wormseye (below the fold) an angry reaction from at least one reader, Allan Hodgson. I’ve moved it out of comments in a Voltairean spirit. I could not disagree more with Andrew Brown’s comments in a Worm’s Eye View … Continue reading Continue reading
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The art of punditry
The many fans of Stephen Glover will treasure today’s column in the Independent. He starts with a long nostalgic look at the old days as a leader writer on the Daily Telegraph: ” … There were at least 10 writers, … Continue reading Continue reading
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Russia is our fatherland
P. Smirnovsky’s A Textbook of Russian Grammar is obviously a book that should be written, even if P. Smirnovsky is unable to undertake the task because he is dead, or possibly never lived. This week’s “Author, Author” competition in the … Continue reading Continue reading
lament for the younger generation
Marlborough College is trying to expel a boy merely for being thick and unpleasant. Perhaps you had to have been there to understand how absurd this is. It’s like being thrown out of Big Brother for being a shallow exhibitionist. … Continue reading Continue reading
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The French Atomic Empire
One of the most perfectly done spoofs I have ever read. (via) In this context, there is a Kingsley Amis poem, below the fold, in which the Englishman appears more interested in sex than his French crewmates … Continue reading
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Smarter than Feynmann
These videos depict one of the purest pieces of research I have ever seen: research so pure that it is, in fact, impossible to think of a use for this discovery — at the same time, I defy you not … Continue reading Continue reading
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A slogan for our times
A fine anecdote about Claud Cockburn from a recent TLS review of Patrick Cockburn’s memoir of illness: “My father regarded going to St Mary’s (Church) as largely a cultural activity of the Anglo-Irish which he was happy to go along … Continue reading Continue reading
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Coarse fishing in Scandinavia
There’s a short story below the fold that I think I might flog somewhere but everything I write looks like crap to me at the moment, as if my heart had turned to pumice stone. Continue reading
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