2015 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Brantridge Brantrindge Barntrindge Barntridge: Herbert (Rainford) Towning and the Pujol clan

Four mentions, four spellings in Crónica Global’s piece about a British tub in the Pujol clan’s money laundry. This dyslexia appears sourced from Antonio Fernández’s new book, Pujol & Puig, which mixes the forms “Brantridge” and “Brandtridge”. CG follows the Spanish practice of assuming that foreigners also have two surnames, and refers to “Herbert Arthur…

Accordion bonanza

With some Norwegian, a bunny, and a bell-ringing act.

Some migration songs

With an introduction by St. Spike in the Moon.

Humanity, viewed from the spike of St. Lawrence's, Gnosall.

Morons, Zamorans and the Galician Obama

Like all good liberal democrats (no caps) we want to imagine that everyone else shares our condition, but it don’t always work.

Migrants entering Slovenia from Croatia

Plus Gibbon and Leigh Fermor on migrations past.

So has anyone reported the London property Ponzi scheme to the police?

You can denounce Osbrown on the Action Fraud page.

How to piss off America

Via the poke: WTF is Steam? Can we finally stop identifying states with languages?

So where does Silvio Berlusconi stand on organ-grinders?

Unfortunately Alan Friedman’s excellent authorised bio, My Way, leaves us none the wiser.

Animal sawdust

JG Kohl, in Petersburg’s markets at the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria: The anatomical dissections of a Russian butcher are extremely simple. Bones and meat having been all rendered equally hard by the frost, it would be difficult to attempt to separate the several joints. The animals are, accordingly, sawn up into a…

Dog meat soup at Kaesong Folk Hotel, Korea.

Unlucky organ-grinder-ballad-singers

Kasper Lutz in German (occasionally), nameless in French and English?