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This is a very simple bleg, but one that I hope - if it’s going to expand our collective waistline - will be enjoyable. On Easter Sunday, my college MCR is holding an Easter chocolate sampling, board games and port session (it’s Oxford, forgive us our nerdish tendencies).
Among other things, various people are in charge [...]

I’ve got a piece in the January-February 2008 ‘bumper’ issue of Quadrant, which - I understand - is just out. As I road-tested the ideas therein on Catallaxians, the least I can do is tell you where to find the final version.
I’ve also taken some pretty decent Hogmanay photos, although my failure to bring a [...]

A suicide bomber, apparently. A BBC obituary is available here.
Large numbers of other people - particularly security personnel - were also killed. Bhutto was campaigning in the lead-up to Pakistan’s first democratic elections in some time, and after the lifting of Pervez Musharraf’s state of emergency.
UPDATE: Earlier this evening, I had to pick up a [...]

Maybe I stepped on Phillip Adams’ grave, because he’s at it again, and even repeats the Scunthorpe furphy (quite happy to show you my birth certificate; the Old Man was born in Paddington, London. Mum’s family’s Irish, and she grew up in Lightwater, which, last time I looked, was in Surrey). I don’t have a [...]