Thu, 24 Jul 2008
Boris Johnson on homemade jam
Here's a delightful article in the Telegraph from the then-MP from Henley, now (if I recall correctly) the mayor of London.
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Tue, 08 Jul 2008
Hey Britons...
Get 'em while you still can and put them to good use. See especially:
- Popular Basis of Political Authority
- Right of Revolution
- Rights
- Equality
- Property
- Constitutional Government
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008
A bit of Gloucestershire in the South Pacific
Vide:
The entire population of a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has been found to speak with a West Country accent – because the residents all descend from one man from Gloucestershire.
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Mon, 15 Oct 2007
Rush in Manchester
Here's a great review of Rush's recent concert in Manchester. The money quote:
It's a happy irony that, in this era obsessed with youth, celebrity and fame, it is a trio of unfashionable veterans who can still show the young 'uns how to put on a rock show.
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Tue, 09 Oct 2007
The decline and fall of the moustache
A fun article in the Telegraph, via the Irish Elk. An excerpt:
Strict etiquette was enforced regarding the care of the fashionable accessory. In the 1880s, Rudyard Kipling wrote of a woman who complained that being kissed by a man who did not wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.
When the First World War began, it was compulsory for all British officers to have a moustache. Poignantly, that edict was revoked in October 1916, because the new recruits were so young that some could not rustle up more than a thin, mousey streak.
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Lives of the English Martyrs
Via Google Books: Lives of the English Martyrs Declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII. in 1886 and 1895:
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