Chancellor takes pole position
News wall: Rishi Sunak
Chancellor takes pole position
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Diary: 22-24 September
Three days that didn’t change the world, exactly
Diary snapshot: Endemic & epidemic
Chickenpox is endemic in the United Kingdom, but malaria is not...
Diary snapshot: Traffic cones
Perhaps the cone was not following the boat, but following me
News wall: Banksy
Street artist loses two-year legal battle over trademarks
News wall: Harold Evans
I'd sit every day marvelling at what simple words put together in the right way could do
Diary snapshot: That guilty feeling
I just presumed I was to blame
Backyard holiday: Regents Canal, London
Mothers with buggies jostled with militant cyclists. Idle students lolled on the grassy verges
News wall: Epidemiology
The distinction between "epidemic" and "endemic" was first drawn by Hippocrates
Diary: 15-21 September
Brexit bust-up breaks new ground, but Covid continues to cause chaos
News wall: Modern Man just got 35,000 years older
New research shows earlier arrival in Saudi Arabia
News wall: Poland in LGBT clash with EU
Around 80 towns declare themselves “LGBT-free”
Diary snapshot: The birch tree
In Celtic cultures, the birch symbolises growth, renewal, stability, initiation, and adaptability
Diary snapshot: Boris’s Kitchen-sink anarchy
The word anarchy was first used in 1539, meaning "an absence of government"
Art: Ted Bolt Says Relax, A Portrait
I chose to make a portrait of someone I have never even seen
News wall: Churchill’s secret guerrilla army
A sort of Dad's Army with dirty faces
Artwork Archive: Poppy Fields
The 1914-18 world war holds a place in my mind that is both comforting and disturbing
SoCS 19.9.20: Tion Wayne
The challenge is to use words ending in TION in a stream of consciousness. If it hadn't been for SoCS, the British rapper Tion Wayne would have passed me by. As it is, my attention has been piqued and henceforth I shall roam the land up and down, back and forth, this way and that, … Continue reading SoCS 19.9.20: Tion Wayne
Diary snapshot: Duvet day
Duvets originated in rural Europe and were filled with the down feathers of ducks or geese
News wall: Safe-distance social care
To improve opportunities and life chances, to strengthen families and to protect human rights
Billy's Scrapbook 