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I'm tickled pink my blog has been listed this weekend on Tim Worstall's britblog round up - received several emails letting me know - seems to have generated some excitement. Surprised that one of my ramblings could have caught his attention - though Jonathon Calder's Liberal England is up there as one of the big boys (I'm the only woman and way down the pecking order). He's the only person I

One final entry about my trip to Minnesota. On the day after the field trip the stragglers were invited to visit Minneapolis City Hall by Vaman Pai from the Communications Department (left), who took the photos. The City Hall is a magnificent marble and stained glass redstone civic building. In the large entrance hall there is a huge statue of Father of Waters, representing the Mississippi with a crocodile and turtle, carved from a single block of Italian marble. Left picture - City Hall, Minneapolis Right picture - Me, Kerrie Oates ...

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Earlier this year I reviewed Matthew Sweet's book Shepperton Babylon . On Thursday week (11 August) BBC4 is showing a documentary based on the book. How can you resist this billing? The film studios of London are awash with cocaine-fuelled sex, extortion, suicides, and bizarre accidental deaths - not to mention the behind-the-scenes dramas that don't make it into the Sunday papers. It's the 1930s; the British talkie has just been born.The BBC website also carries an interview with Matthew Sweet.

Those "in the know" will know that there are more than 20 Birminghams in the world including a New Birmingham in Ireland. Birmingham, Alabama (USA) is the best known other Birmingham. The link is the link to the US National Weather Services Tornado Scale. Our Tornado which was an F2 "significant tornado" (113-157mph) is much weaker than an F5 "Incredible Tornado". (Their scale is Gale, Moderate,

An extra special post, written by Charles Clarke, MP*: Those annoying protestors are at it again. Don't they understand that democracy is best facilitated by a total lack of public interference, in fact it's more efficient if there is a complete lack of any opposition at all. Hopefully, this new bill will stop both the public (although not Brian Haw... yet) and nuisance MPs from protesting

Something exciting is rumbling around the net that turns it into a truly social tool where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Here are some bits of it: - the BBC offering up its content via backstage - Google Maps hacks - social bookmarking through del.icio.us - client side intermediaries like this prototype del.icio.us [...]

Backstroke of the West, aka Revenge of the Sith translated into Chinese and back again. (Via.)

I bought a Stranglers greatest hits CD from the bargain basket in Virgin on Saturday, but judging by today's headlines I should have opted for the Clash. This morning The Guardian reported that Tony Blair was going to leave us in no doubt as to whether he will be standing down as Prime Minister before the next election, by departing the House of Commons at the same time. Apparently he does not want a big job such as Earth supremo but just wants some time working to promote inter-faith unity. By 1pm it seems that all of that was just ...

This article from last week's Times shows why Dave Houghton's greatest coaching success has been keeping Derbyshire rooted firmly to the bottom of the County Championship. “No disrespect to Ashley Giles, but what use is he in the side?” he said. “He’s not going to get wickets against the Aussie batsmen and he’s not going to make any runs against their bowlers. With him, England are effectively playing ten against 11. They should either include another specialist batsman and use the off spin of Vaughan and Pietersen or pick a spinner who can bat, like Gareth Batty, and or ...

After watching this video testemony you do not have to be a conspiracy theorist to think that the world’s largest democracy is riddled with corruption. In this video we see a former employee of Yang Enterprises (a government it contractor) state under oath that his firm was comissioned by a Republican congressman to build software [...]