Monthly Archives: July 2007

Numbers

I was flicking through Brian Harris’ coffee table book of melancholy photographs from Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries; a record of eleven years, in all, of total war in which Britain and the Empire exhausted themselves with the loss of … Continue reading Continue reading

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Shorts

John Naughton, sharpening the contradictions of capitalism. Part of a really cruel set of Cambridge revelry. This one makes me look hungrily for the nearest lamppost. A very kind notice of an actress on Language Log: Listen closely to Ward … Continue reading Continue reading

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