I’m not a big fan of Presbyterians (anagram check), but to their credit it’s more than 300 years since the Kirk had Thomas Aikenhead killed for speaking out of turn. What we need from the “moderate” Imam of Drancy is not condescending “tolerance” and “pardon” for all of our sodomites and Jewboys and funnymen, but…
Google Street View won’t let me cross the border from Holland to Germany, and I’ve lost their phone number. Help! Aka: whatever happened to all those old border posts?
Because they contain payment cards. Yup, 60s festival administration came home. Jesus F Christ, what ‘tards. I might have an alcohol-free beer to get over the shock. Seriously, get yourself a kazoo this Christmas, and pay cash. The North Koreans haven’t banned them yet, though followers of the Only True Faith are a bit twitchy.
Have you ever considered how incredibly handy it is that next year is always one more than this one? Such powers must never be handed over to Brussels, and there’s only one way to ensure that.
Says a Finn (articles). Kudos to anyone who can identify the painting, and to Kari Poikolainen for standing in front of it. Now for the season of apocalyptic deluges and painful droughts.
Martin Filler -(faux?) outraged New York dandy- is certainly a giggle. If he had any serious interest in France or the Gothic he’d know that the sexless late-republican yellowing of major churches has been going on for some time now. (If all those black virgins are to be white once more, then surely we also…
José Fariña is writing about Galicia, but his comments are generally applicable: form follows function, so rural flight and the conversion of C20th smallholding culture into industrial agriculture and bear forests will inevitably lead to the entire replacement of the gloriously heterogeneous building culture of the past by drab “rural” 2nd home estates of Asterix…
This lovely story of a Castilla y León government tender for a small investigative boat which already included the name of the winner, a company linked to the governing party, reminded me of this beautiful idea re (some of) the Greeks in Martha’s dad’s book: Travel alone was not enough to create ‘science’. These thinkers…
