Oxford Tortoise Cuppers Disgrace
The annual intercollegiate tortoise race was held yesterday here at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Blue Peter showed up to cover the race, bringing the official Blue Peter tortoise. And, after being...
View ArticleBritishness Agenda: Special Beaver Edition
This week has been a fantastic week for Gordon Brown’s “Britishness” agenda, as two events have united the people of Britain as almost never before. First, the people of Britain came together to...
View ArticleReflections on a World Cup Final
In matters of football The fault of the Dutch Is scoring too little And fouling too much. — With apologies to George Canning.
View ArticlePsychic Chickens
My brother’s chickens–Pearl, Queenie, Vi, and Ida–attempt to predict the result of this afternoon’s Wimbledon men’s singles final. (Full discussion here.)
View ArticleLe jour de gloire est arrivé!
Here’s Severine Dupelloux singing the French national anthem to open the Winter Olympics at Albertville in 1992: The link popped up in my twitterstream this morning, and I was very pleased to see it,...
View ArticleAllez Wiggo!
I’m writing this post as the Tour sweeps onto the Rue de Rivoli for the first time, and I’m in a very good mood about this year’s Tour de France. I’ve loved the Tour for twenty years now. It flickered...
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Dustbin of History
The window of the local Oxfam bookshop, just now. [Cue jokes about how it was never about the bike.]
View ArticleLeslie Stephen on The Times on the American Civil War
I HAVE, I hope, raised a prima facie presumption that the Times was labouring under some delusion. It had omitted some element from its calculations, sufficient to distort the whole history of the...
View ArticleOne Hundred Things Norman Geras and I Corresponded About Over the Last Decade
Country music (including but not limited to Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Allison Krauss, and its relationship to suicide) — Marxism — The war in Iraq — The case the British government made for the war...
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