Last night with
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In addition to a whole lot of other things that one could say about this shambolic referendum, it's clear that the Leave campaign has been centred around the interests of England and Wales.

The Guardian has been examining the mess Brexit will make of the life of border communities in Northern Ireland, not to mention the peace process. Was this in ( Read more... )

The national broadcaster offers a great summary (in English) of the epic constitutional crisis that has unfolded in Iceland since the release of the Panama Papers ( Read more... )

*settles down with cup of tea to follow the Scottish referendum ( Read more... )

Take your pick...

Guardian: Five songs about Margaret Thatcher

Vulture: 9 Not-So-Thrilled Songs About Margaret Thatcher

Louder than War: Top 13 Anti Margaret Thatcher Songs

BuzzFeed: 21 Incredibly Angry Songs About Margaret Thatcher

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Recently we've been getting several calls a day from presidential pollsters. I haven't answered any of them, yet I seem to spend most of my free time poring over the slightest fluctuation in Nate Silver's numbers. Might there be an inconsistency here ( Read more... )

Via
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Some of these are months old. Hopefully they will still be useful/interesting...

Likely Impossibilities: Standing Room at the Vienna State Opera
Never been, not likely to go in the near future, but I find it comforting that if I did go, I would know exactly what to do.

Balloon Juice: Thank you flowersA cat who brings flowers to his owners' porch ( Read more... )

While I haven't been much in a vid-watching mood recently, I just have to rec yunitsa's Jerusalem, which is based on the docudrama When Boris Met DaveIt's set to a song by the Indelicates (whose fanbase seems to be almost completely made up of Oxford postgrads whom I know personally), cynical and tender by turns, wonderful and terrible at the same time. ( Read more... )

Yet another reason, courtesy of the National Review, why Elena Kagan wouldn't make a good Supreme Court justice:

In addition to her kicking military recruiters off Harvard’s campus during wartime and being paid for a comfy position on a Goldman Sachs advisory board, this passage (from this article) nicely captures Elena Kagan’s remoteness from the ( Read more... )