The university I attended was (and still is) in west-central London. A fifteen-minute walk from the main campus got you to Tottenham Court Road tube station, with Charing Cross ...
"Never darken my door again" was the standard Victorian parting shot to a person you wanted to be rid of. (It was adjusted in one of Bridget Jones’s diaries to: ...
The talk is all of pot. Not "pot" the utensil, as in Confucius's fine aphorism “A man is not a pot,” but cannabis sativa, AKA grass, tea, weed, bud, ganja, ...
Tightwad corner. If, like me, you never learned to touch-type; and if, also like me, you work your laptop to death; and if, like mine, your machine is a cheapo model; then you ...
"The first episode of Downton Abbey‘s fourth season was watched by 10.2 million people in the US on Sunday, a record for a series premiere on PBS.” So says the ...
Look, it's no fun being the designated race reporter at Taki's Mag. When I joined the contributor list I ticked “opera critic” as my preferred slot on the masthead. ...
In a recent edition of Radio Derb I mentioned the advantages of moving to Iceland but added: “The downside is, you have to not mind living on a volcano.” One ...
You remember Caligula. John Hurt played him with creepy malignity in the old BBC production of I, Claudius. Caligula was the third emperor of Rome on a strict count (which ...
Little more than a hundred years ago the modern British welfare state was born in David Lloyd George's 1909 finance bill, the “people's budget.” Hearing of the bill's ...
I heard the word "Techintern" for the first time the other day. It's not exactly current. A Google search for the word brought up 17,000 results, all of which, for as long ...
Ceruzzi, Paul E. Computing: A Concise History. Cambridge, MA; The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, 2012. This time last year all I was hearing about was MOOCs"Massive ...
I was in England for Remembrance Sunday this year. The wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph was very moving. I had forgotten how much emotion the British invest in this and how ...
I note with interest that January 1, 2014 marks the centenary of scheduled commercial passenger airplane flights. I note with further interest, although the interest now has some ...
In the latest political assault on the spirit and traditions of our fighting forces, US Navy brass has banned SEAL troops from wearing the colonial "DON"T TREAD ON ME" ...
Following up last week's rant about cant, kindly permit me a harangue about slang and the affliction of bad diction. Got that? Last week, the empty, insincere things we say; this ...
I had to smile the other day on finding out about the "repurposing" of a favorite quote. The quote is from Dr. Johnson, one of the most quotable men that ever lived. The ...
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