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Lowering the tone...
Link 'borrowed' from the b3ta newsletter. It is a version of 'hot or not' focused on members of the US Congress, and the results of the crowdsourcing are in.The best lookers, based on the wisdom of...
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A vintage Hansard trawl, featuring 'the truth about the navy', troublemaking...
Cost over-runs - a lot older than government IT projects. At least 150 years older....COLONEL WILSON PATTEN ....During the lifetime of the late Sir Charles Barry various steps were taken more or less...
View ArticleThe trouble with Wikipedia
While trying to discover the age of Lt Col Derek Wilford (I have failed, thus far), I stumbled upon a page category in wikipedia called 'Massacres in Northern Ireland'. Not immediately recognising all...
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One for all the DPRK 'fans'
Just seen this at the BBC website. The blighters do not appear to provide direct play urls for videos, and this will not work outside the UK. That apart, enjoy.And this, gifted to me by Dizzy,...
View ArticleThe long-awaited DPRK Vs Brazil match report
And they have not let me down (too badly):"The league match of the 2010 World Cup between the DPRK and Brazil took place at dawn (Pyongyang time) on Wednesday. From the outset of the match the two...
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Should the good burghers of Hammersmith & Fulham be worried?
Spotted while out and about:And a late breaking 1960 Hansard nugget:Smell Nuisance, Tees-sideMr. Chetwynd asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what action...
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Lost in translation and the like
The more astute of any of my remaining readers will be able to work out where I've been from these....And what about this for a uniquely appealing attraction?:And the way to greet certain Islamic...
View ArticleHansard quote o' the day, and a bonus vintage factlet
This, from 1910, in a discussion on regency arrangements were George V to die before his progeny were of age: Sir John Brunner (Lib) "At eighteen years of age the ordinary individual begins his...
View ArticleThe long overdue round up of recent odd French surveys
First up, who do they blame for their, ahem, World Cup debacle:Among the French overall, the finger is pointed at the players - 35%, then the manager (32%) and then the equivalent of the FA (24%)....
View ArticleWaiting for Godot. Ish.
A couple of months back I blogged about my fun and games with NHS waiting lists, and noted mt scepticism about my 8/7 apppointment being kept.Well, credit where it is due etc etc, the appointment...
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What are the British afraid of this week? I have the answers
I have before me Eurobarometer research on attitudes to electromagnetic fields, and the extended data set asks about things that might affect one's health, and number one - with a bullet - is...
View ArticleA little light showing off
I have discovered a web app which analyses one's prose style and then matches it to a noted writer.Therefore, I am delighted to declare that when I tried out my hospital post on it, the app was...
View ArticleFactlet o' the day
From a 1960 debate, or rather an orgy of backslapping, on Nigerian independence:Fenner Brockway "Today we are deciding that half the population in the British Empire shall have the right of...
View ArticleA much bigger Switzerland?
This, from Le Matin, taken in turn from Weltwoche:The majority of the French, Germans, Austrians and Italians living in regions bordering [Switzerland] would like to be integrated into Switzerland....
View ArticleA bit of a Hansard trawl, with chief's wages, guns and 'objectionable...
I've been ill-ish, hence silence of late.Anyway, this from the 'autre temps, autre moeurs, 1910' dept file:Mr. COURTHOPE asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is yet in a position to provide...
View ArticleUnlikely to be coming to a cinema near you...
After something of a hiatus, say hello to the absurdities of the EU's attempts to get into the movies, so to speak:"Akadimia Platonos, Die Fremde and Illégal were the three films shortlisted on Tuesday...
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Headline o' the day
As spotted and tweeted by Ed West at the 'graph, and I'm taking it to a narrower audience as A - it is amusing, and B - proof that I still live and breathe:
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When censors cannot agree, or 'you're gonna need a bigger boat'.
Spotted this earlier, and thought it might amuse:Feel free to exercise a prejudice for or against our lot or our Hibernian chums.
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Why Labour has chosen the right Miliband
No Labour party leader with an unabbreviated first name has won a general election since 1974 - Harold Wilson. Since then, Mr Tony succeeded in '97, 2001 and 2005 while Michael, Neil, John and Gordon...
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The things you can pack into a minute....
Spotted this on a cinema site and thought it deserved a narrower audience:"The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet come together in a special journey from a snowy Ukrainian picture-book village to the...
View ArticleKeeping an eye on the French, so you don't have to.
See, I'm not dead. Anyway, I think a French survey round up is called for:Humanité (the Communist Party daily, not the species) has asked the Plain People of France how they view the prospect of doing...
View ArticleComing soon - a new name, and a lot more blogging
I have decided to start afresh under a new, and non-geographical name. I landgrabbed a name on blogger yesterday and currently have it in closed alpha, erm, beta testing - as in I say 'I'm calling...
View ArticleAnd my new blog is called.....
Closed beta testing having seen my new blog name getting the thumbs up - thanks Dizzy, Blue Eyes and Catherine - I now declare my new blog open.It can be found here - http://quizzicalgaze.blogspot.com/...
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