Monthly Archives: November 2006

next, a well-known bridge

Ruth Gledhill gets very aerated about George Carey being banned from Bangor Cathedral, but she misses the real story, which I found on Google. The Dean, or someone, is actually selling the cathedral. Will those liberals stop at nothing? Continue reading

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And why not?

Tidying my hard drive, I found a wormseye from earlier this month. So I will put it here, as well: Worm’s Eye, Mon 2 Oct 06 In the house of an old doctor I found I book called “Patients as … Continue reading Continue reading

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Scuttling rat watch

well, since it’s Boris, more scampering away than scuttling. Still, it is interesting to read that he should have known, within ten days of the invasion, that we were doomed. It’s not quite how he saw it at the time: … Continue reading Continue reading

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The price of a bishop

Last year, the energetic and saintly Roman Catholic bishop of Isiola diocese, in Northern Kenya, was bludgeoned and shot to death outside his compound after nearly forty years there. It was believed at first that he was a martyr to … Continue reading Continue reading

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Should Old Aquinas be forgot?

David Chalmers asks if anyone knows the words to the philosophers’ drinking song “Should Old Aquinas be forgot?”. This is the kind of thing at which Ecco excels. Within seconds I have extracted from its bowels eight lines: Should old … Continue reading Continue reading

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NYT, 503, Cookies

I have for some time been frustrated that I could not access stories in the New York Times from home. I could reach the front page, but every time I tried to read individual stories, I would get an HTTP Continue reading Continue reading

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worm update

It looks to me as if the worm has merely moulted, as nematodes will: I will write weekly1 on the Guardian’s main comment site2 instead. I am still going to miss my weekly chats with Ros Taylor, though. There is … Continue reading Continue reading

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