Stalin’s organ works

But all its pipes are the same length, so it only plays one note. Plus totalitarian musical dogs and terror management studies.

Small (Australian) boy with a pet dog singing in (peaceful) unison (1939).

Clue to treaty signature location in title punctuation

Convention on the Law Applicable to Products Liability. No possessive apostrophe in Dutch. Is The Hague also to blame for the greengrocer’s apostrophe? “Bring back the banana’s!“: a touchy-feely slogan for a post-EU political union between (SE) England and the Netherlands?

Kill the vibe

Unlike the Labour Party, which is still largely in blame-the-voters mode, the Evil Empire does seem to be thinking vaguely about UKIP, but there’s a word in the leaked European Commission migration doc which predicts the doom of any initiative thence: The EU must continue to offer protection to those in need. It must also…