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Algernon Sidney sends for Micklethwait because Micklethwait is wise, learned, diligent, and faithful

Incoming (“A quote you may like”) from Richard Carey, who gave a great talk at my home last Friday, at my latest Last Friday, about The English Radicals at the time of the Civil War: Here’s a quote from Algernon Sidney’s ‘Discourses on Government’, which lost him his head but gained him the admiration of … Continue reading Algernon Sidney sends for Micklethwait because Micklethwait is wise, learned, diligent, and faithful

Alastair James on Blythe Hill Fields and smartphones

Immediately after my first relaunched Last Friday, the one at which Sam Bowman spoke, I suffered a dose of success depression. This is when you achieve a goal, and then feel not happy but empty, because deprived of the goal. The event had gone well. But I expected a little too much from it by … Continue reading Alastair James on Blythe Hill Fields and smartphones

It really is about bloody time Jonathan Davies learned how to pronounce Jauzion

Yes I’m watching the rugby again (France v Italy), and okay, you can forgive Jonathan Davies for not knowing everyone in the French team. Nobody does, because it’s now a different French team every time. But Yannick Jauzion has played enough, and been mispronounced often enough by Davies, that by now you’d have thought he’d … Continue reading It really is about bloody time Jonathan Davies learned how to pronounce Jauzion

Dame Edna and Borats in Piccadilly Circus!

So today (yesterday by the clock but this is only the small hours and not really tomorrow yet) I was in Piccadilly Circus, London, and I spotted and snapped a celebrity: Yes it was Dame Edna: I know, the sunlight all behind her. But what could I do? Move the sun round to behind me? … Continue reading Dame Edna and Borats in Piccadilly Circus!

On free trade and on being persuasive (and unpersuasive)

Madsen Pirie at the Adam Smith Institute blog, also quoted at greater length by Alex at the Globalisation Institute blog: The reason for optimism is this. One senses the end of an era, as protectionism collapses into a mass of contradictions and absurdities. From the current shambles people are learning that free trade tends to … Continue reading On free trade and on being persuasive (and unpersuasive)

Douglas Jardine and Spike Milligan

I see that BBC4 TV is showing a programme about the late Spike Milligan tonight. In fact I have just started watching it. So far it has been a parade of dreary Milligan relatives who I do not want to know about. It so happens that I was having Spike Milligan thoughts myself today, without … Continue reading Douglas Jardine and Spike Milligan

Benjamin Nabarro and the Belmont Ensemble

Last night I and some friends attended a concert given by the Belmont Ensemble of London, in St Martin-in-the-Fields, which is the splendid and beautifully decorated early eighteenth century church at the top right corner of Trafalgar Square. It was one of those concerts of baroque and not long after string orchestra favourites, of the … Continue reading Benjamin Nabarro and the Belmont Ensemble

I’m still at the housekeeping stage which is why I haven’t deliberately told anyone about this blog

I did tell a lot of people without realising I was doing it, when I started compiling my blogroll. Apparently some or all the blogs thus rolled thereby learned of this blog’s existence. But I haven’t been sending out messages to mere readers yet, e.g. by linking to this blog from Samizdata. This is not … Continue reading I’m still at the housekeeping stage which is why I haven’t deliberately told anyone about this blog

A roundabout under the sea

Joining up three bits of the Faroe Islands, with a roundabout instead of a triangle of separate tunnels: It’s the red bit in this map. The yellow bits are still to come. There are a lot of yellow bits, to come. I did not know anything about these tunnels. Blog and learn.