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Back in 2002, in the early days of the wideworldinterweb, when people still paid attention to Friends Reunited and other cave paintings, som...

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station that considers itself informed and informative, a bastion of the Reithian educational mission of Auntie Beeb....

Some time late last week Tony Blair was on the radio for some reason that I cannot now remember.   I’ve tried to find the interview on the T...

6  May 2013 update. So Niall Ferguson has recently got himself in trouble for some ill-considered remarks about how John Maynard Keynes w...

In the last post but one I was saying about how great it is to laugh at and be laughed at by foreigners.   And that reminded me of a bott...

In my last post, about David Mitchell, Adolf Hitler, and laughing at foreigners, I mentioned how German and Austrians friends get understand...

In this Sunday’s Observer the wonderful David Mitchell wrote about how one of the things that makes him most proud to be British is our nat...