Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
BBC science fail
There is nothing ‘coincidental’ about a lunar eclipse occurring during a full moon.
Busy man
gents' loo at the Birch Service Station on the M62 this morning: a businessman operating two hand-driers simultaneously, one for each hand.
Shock news
Analysis of EU Referendum voting patterns shows strong correlation between lower educational qualifications and voting Leave.
Vegetative state
Iceberg lettuces and broccoli rationed as vegetable crisis hits supermarkets shock!
Quixotic grouse
Photo of a red grouse tilting at a wind turbine.
Trump inauguration
As usual, the Fall say all that needs to be said.
2016 in a nutshell
My sixth annual video slideshow of the year.
Book review: ‘Poetry Notebook’ by Clive James
Sorting the poetic wheat from chaff. To her great amusement during a recent telephone conversation, I explained to my friend Stense how, having finally managed to start appreciating certain poetry in recent years, I had just bought a collection by a poet whose earlier work I had very much enjoyed, only to find it utterly… Continue reading Book review: ‘Poetry Notebook’ by Clive James
Book review: ‘Love of Country’ by Madeleine Bunting
A Hebridean Journey. Love of Country documents numerous trips Madeleine Bunting made to different islands in the Hebrides: a region of the British Isles that contains a surprising amount of history. I enjoyed this book very much (although having the middle-name Lewis, I'm probably biased).