The better the host, the worse his accommodations

From MM: The [London Natural History Society] traces its roots back to 1858, when the Haggerstone Entomological Society was founded in June of that year. By the end of the year it had 35 members, who met one evening a week in the Carpenters’ Arms, a pub in Haggerston, which lies between Shoreditch and Dalston.…
Is this building on the corner of Bridport Place and Rushton Street the original Haggerstone Entomological Society  headquarters?

Bin the NHS

This rings the bell of personal experience: blood samples repeatedly lost, causing extra nights in hospital; no mechanism to push test results (or lack thereof) through to ward staff; staff wheeling pressure-testing machines around whose results can be transmitted automatically to a server but instead are written down by illiterates; random bits of paper hanging…

Pakistani version of the Cobrador del Frac

Tranny debt collectors. Google “cobrador del frac” and the following dreadful threat displays in the site description: “Utilizamos cookies propias y de terceros para optimizar su navegación para mejorar nuestros servicios y para ofrecerte una mejor experiencia online.” Can we sue the EU for the RSI arising from clicking away the cookie notice which they…

Spanish vehicle purchase queries

The thing doesn’t currently have a permiso de circulación, and is stored off-road. Is the former legal? If I buy it, how do I get the permiso so I can drive it away? Am I automatically given one on the cambio de titularidad? The current owner hasn’t transferred titularidad @DGT from the previous owner (the…

Our nationalist-socialist revolution

Ethnic continuism and/or Catholic revivalism: what happened the last time xenophobic populist clerics took charge, with their Dios, patria y fueros. Walking back from an afternoon gig yesterday I heard explosions and chanting: yup, a hen party from Barnsley.