Peafowl

I was going through my papers and came across notes from Peafowl, their conservation, breeding and management by T P Gardiner of the World ...

devant les enfants

almost everything we have done over the last two decades in the area of ICT education in British schools has been misguided and largely fut...

A few years ago, a colleague in another university published a huge book, based on a vast amount of archival research, meticulously docume...

Newnewspeak

Beyond the warped ingenuity of these Heath Robinson schemes to force ‘free’ competition to happen in closely controlled circumstances, such...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(I was reminded of the fact that there are people who honestly believe that if a speaker of British English had a moment of extreme emotion...

1986 was not the year I discovered Roland Barthes. That had been at least a year earlier, and (allowing for the tricks of memory) possibly ...

I'll bet they read xkcd

A commenter has pointed out that it is no longer possible to ride around and around and around on the Circle Line. Since 2009 (always the la...

Lions and tigers and dubya

When the Protection from Harassment Act was being debated, campaigners warned that a bill whose ostensible purpose was to protect women fro...

Facebook makes good

A town has emptied its library in a bid to fight plans to close it down. People in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, hav...

Via MR, video of British town that turned its traffic lights off:

The judge, who said Jacques had no mitigation, told him: "You are a Cambridge graduate and should know better, I suppose. Book thief br...

“There are two schools of thought as to why the Germans love board games,” says Martin Wallace of Warfrog. “The Germans are of the opinion t...

They say that if you love something you should set it free. And if it returns it’ll be yours forever. I’m starting to find that this may act...

New Labour’s policy on celebrity sheen - populism without popularity - was part-and-parcel of a well-documented world of spin, shady unelect...

British rendition of British citizens, Ian Cobain and Owen Boycott at the Guardian

Britain Britain Britain

Andrew Gelman has a post in which he links to an old post of mine on Seth Godin. Andrew took me to endorse the position of Seth Godin. ...

tired dad soldiers on

When things went wrong with BC I told SMcD I thought I'd spent too long in Britain. Tired Dad is the kind of thing I LIKED about Britain...

• Patients are less likely to die in the bigger, busier hospital units where surgical teams are more skilled because they do more of the ope...

These latest volumes of The History of Parliament are the fullest file on Old Corruption ever likely to be compiled, and they finally make ...

crowdsourcing

British high-end chocolate maker and retailer Hotel Chocolat , which currently operates over 40 stores in the UK, the Middle East and the U...