Explaining supply and demand to the Daily Telegraph.

Trump & the Russian Prostitutes Part 1: The 'intelligence'

Trump & The Russian Prostitutes Part 2: BuzzFeed fell for a 4Chan prank.

Trump & The Russian Prostitutes Part 3: "No we weren't!" says Buzzfeed (not entirely convincingly) "and they're all nasty trolls, so there!"

The 74 year old who has been ( Read more... )

I asked my non-British readers which of the following (important or perhaps less so) aspects of British culture they were at least vaguely familiar with. Sixteen people took part in the survey, which I think is enough to draw some conclusions. Here are the results of the poll:

Cadbury's Creme Eggs 15

'Carry On' films 9

Slade 3

The Raleigh Chopper 3

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For my non-British readers:

Poll British culture poll for non-Brits

Here's an interesting article with the author's take on Britain's Ten Best Cheeses.

Here's his top ten:

• Appleby's Cheshire
• Beauvale
• Berkswell
• Cornish Yarg
• Keen's Cheddar

Really ugly deep sea fish caught by a Russian fisherman.

E.T. might have had a horror film sequel.

2017 isn't just a prime number.

Someone out there regularly posts used toilet paper to Gary Lineker and Jonathan Agnew.

Clever PR (and I suspect nothing more) from Amazon.

Given how long this woman has been in the business for, and given where she was ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, Phligm Phlagmers!

How to run an online t-shirt business.

Eight Excuses I Have Told My Son to Use for His Failure to Hand in English Homework, Excuses I Have Learned are Acceptable During a Thirty-Year Career in Journalism, Books, and Film, by Nick Hornby

So you own all 420 published Dragonlance stories but don't know which order to ( Read more... )

My impression was that I read rather fewer books in 2016 than in previous years. Looking at the list, it seems I was right. This doesn't include short stories etc or for that matter all the magazines I read cover to cover. I suspect the main reason for fewer books is that there were a few long slow ones that took me a while to get through.

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I have this vague feeling that we may have more of these…

Trump won because 'liberals' are too smug.

Trump won because "leftist political correctness inspired a terrifying backlash".

Trump didn't win because he appealed to white supremacists.

"Hipster planning to vote Trump in postmodern and ironic way." Maybe this was why he won…

"Welcome to the Bubble ( Read more... )

Covert CIA plot to wait until Fidel Castro dies of old age successful

Under Castro, Cuba had 40 years of economic stagnation while neighbouring capitalist countries grew massively richer. Yay, socialism!

So you'd have to be really, really gormless to praise Castro wouldn't you?

Some of the wackiest Castro tributes. Here’s an interesting intellectual ( Read more... )

FIFA thinks that "fans wearing poppies" is racist, apparently. One of the biggest mistakes made by this country in the twentieth century was letting corrupt foreigners run football. It’s getting worse.

Britain doesn't actually need to "trigger article 50" to leave the EU, we can just leave. Which seems obvious to me, and this professor of ( Read more... )