Chronica majora – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Why God created Adam with a belly button

With other navel manoeuvres, including a freak displayed in the Hague in 1683 and a Central European in her undies.

Back in 2000, Britain lead the way in medical research… But the EU Clinical Trials Directive, whose regulations came into effect in 2004, put an end to much of this vital medical research. Everyone and his monkey on my farm seems to have abandoned led – and, after all, the past of read isn’t red…

Vale of tears > veil of tears

An eggcorn that expresses the individualisation of religion? With a short sermon for the Dutch.

If FIFA were a bank

And what to do with the Moscow and Qatar events and with Sepp.

If car-drivers become arseholes because of deindividuation

… then why do single cyclists end up the same despite lacking most of the contributory conditions?

Why London property costs so much

And how not to fix it.

Bull attack cures wheelchair woman

As a student I was the token honky in the horn section of a Brummy gospel-funk band, whose performances regularly led to crutch derogation and such, but I never saw anything to equal this: Insurance companies and quack therapists, take note.

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?

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