35 Years Of American Death
Statistics and maps. Grimly fascinating.
(tags: Death ushealth Maps )

#Kazakhstan education ministry establishes working group to transfer alphabet to Latin
From қазақша to qazaqşa?
(tags: Language kazakhstan alphabets )

French Candidates Talk of ‘Frexit,’ but Le Divorce Would Be Chaotic
Great piece by @StephenFidler1.
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Here's Why The General Election Will Actually Be Really Fascinating
Buzzfeed's tour d'horizon.
(tags: ukpolitics )

An Open Letter On The Subject Of Tim Farron's 'Homophobia'
Telling it like it is.
(tags: ukpolitics libdems sexandgenderandsexuality )

Hugo award winner Folding Beijing to be made into a movie
Hooray!
(tags: China sf )

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Marine Le Pen, no longer enemy of the euro
Rhetoric meets reality.
(tags: france eu )

Peter Robinson on Martin McGuinness
The human dimension.
(tags: northernireland )

A 130-Year-Old Fact About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong
You don't know what you don't know!
(tags: dinosaurs fossils )

Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, ( Read more... )

Azerbaijan's lost transparency
Ilgar Mammadov still effective though in jail.
(tags: azerbaijan )

Belgian civil service and my car: the unbearable lightness of incompetence.
@AlinaBelskaya loses 7 months and 3000 euro.
(tags: Belgium )

David Rockefeller, Philanthropist and Head of Chase Manhattan, Dies at 101
His wife (who dies in 1996) was a ( Read more... )

My Friend, The Russian Ambassador
Lovely obituary by former US ambassador @SamanthaJPower.
(tags: death russia uspolitics diplomacy )

To the Commonwealth, "Global Britain" sounds like nostalgia for something else
Deaf to history and blind to economics.
(tags: brexit ukpolitics )

The Martin Schulz bounce
@JonWorth wonders if it can last.
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Gill Howie obituary
I had completely missed that she died four years ago. What a shame. #fb
(tags: death )

All you need to know how to influence the EU in one easy chart
Plus a few extra points.
(tags: eu lobbying )

South Sudan warns of hundreds of thousands facing famine
First declared famine in the world for six years. Very sad.
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Yes-no questions in in Chinese
对 or 不?
(tags: China chinese linguistics )

Hans Rosling: A truth-teller in an age of 'alternative facts'
Great obituary.
(tags: death statistics )

John Hurt, versatile star of The Elephant Man, Alien and Harry Potter, dies aged 77 Sad news.
(tags: doctorwho death ) Five Roger Zelazny Books that Changed My Life by Being Awesome By @StevenBrust.
(tags: sf ) Fanzines, Cover Art, and the Best Vorkosigan Planet: An Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold Yay!
(tags: sf )

No longer welcome: the EU academics in Britain told to ‘make arrangements to leave’
#TakingBackControl
(tags: ukpolitics brexit eu )

5 Reasons to Vote for the Hugo Awards
Thanks, @DanKoboldt!
(tags: sf hugos )

John Hurt, versatile star of The Elephant Man, Alien and Harry Potter, dies aged 77
Sad news.
(tags: doctorwho death )

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Martin McGuiness’s departure represents failure on all sides
Newton Emerson sums it up.
(tags: northernireland )

Peter Weston (1944-2017)
Among many other things, he owned the foundry which has made the Hugo Awards since 1984.
(tags: hugos sf death )

North looking at a new election landscape
My piece for Wednesday's Irish Times
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