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BP pledged £10M to London.

Published 19-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: art, culture, london

State-sponsored religious indoctrination of children

Stense has emailed me a link to a funny video on YouTube.

Published 19-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: religion, videos

Kim Jong? ill?

Mystic Meg's advice to the late North Korean dictator.

Published 19-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: astrology, politics

More of a Guardian reader myself

BBC: Sun 'stops chickenpox spreading'.

Published 19-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: newspapers

Seasonal tip

If you don't like Brussels sprouts, you're almost certainly cooking them too long.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: christmas, cooking, vegetables

Cleverly, he dialled from within

A rare recording of a village peasant sprawled next to the drainage ditch reciting Captain Beefheart’s 'The Old Fart At Play'.

Published 17-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: audio, beefheart, hooting yard

Prime Minister does God

Cameron says the UK is a Christian country.

Published 17-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: politics, religion

Prepare to be astonished…

Video of amazing maths calculation on Countdown.

Published 14-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: mathematics, tv, videos

W.G. Sebald ten years on

Thoughts on WG Sebald on the tenth anniversary of his death.

Published 14-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: books, sebald

Get within kicking distance and throw the ball to Jonny

Jonny Wilkinson retires from test rugby.

Published 13-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: australia, rugby, sport, videos

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