The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia's 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret

Have we reached peak Waitrose?

Guide to Figuring Out the Age of an Undated World Map

Street Fighter and Philosophy

The unexpected treasure found on an abandoned liner on the North Wales coast

...and more on that story.

How to predict the Referendum result

Man almost goes into ( Read more... )

The latest target of the PC police - Gilbert & Sullivan.

"Controversy as Chester Zoo opens 'Wrexham Scally Enclosure'". (I should point out that Homo Wrexhamius Scalliensis Chavus is pretty much confined to the southern part of Wrexham, not the nice bit where I’m from…)

Why Gandhi is such an asshole in Civilisation.

The Curious Case of the (Medieval) ( Read more... )

Open plan offices are bad. There are two people in my workplace. I’m married to the other one. And we work in different rooms. Imagine how bad it is to work right next to people you don’t even like…

Ranking British universities for free speech.

If you needed body armour, why wouldn't you want it to look like Boba Fett's?

Male competitive athlete? ( Read more... )

Honestly. I was just scrolling around Google Maps, looking at a part of Wales I don't know very well. Basically, Wales has a pretty large and very empty area in the middle of it with few roads. I thought I'd have a look around using Streetview and was intrigued that the Streetview camera van seems to have gone up one road and then just stopped (and ( Read more... )

The Russian Navy is a LOT smaller than the Soviet Navy.

Someone asked me the other day if we had any "politically incorrect" board games in stock in the Shop. I had to admit that we didn't. I'm all for tweaking the sensibilities of the terminally politically correct, but I think even I would draw the line well before this point.

Bill Gates's ( Read more... )

Solidarity with the Brownsons - a Gofundme project.

Medieval-style Lovecraftian art

Cats. From the 16th century. With frikkin ROCKET PACKS!

Star Wars / Back to the Future easter egg in Doctor Who

Chairman Mao "on balance did more good than harm". I love Michael Portillo’s expression of horror/incredulity/hilarity in this clip. Remember people, if ( Read more... )

Why did the Great Depression last for so long in the US? The US Government's economic policies.

In a university of several thousand students, all with smartphones, how likely is it that precisely none of them would take a photo of a "poop swastika"?

Right wing? Apparently it's your fault that muslim terrorists killed over a hundred people in Paris. ( Read more... )

"Seumas Milne will finish Labour off"

I wonder if the Ugandan league is included in Football Manager...

The D&D monsters based on cheap Chinese toys.

Why We Should Defend The Right To Be Offensive. (I reserve the right to believe that some of the comments on this article were made by idiots.)

Tax credits are complex and expensive. Why not simply a ( Read more... )

Tips for authors on marketing your book.

Brian Clough won two consecutive European Cups with Nottingham Forest. How would that team fare today?

Interesting (colour) photographs of rural and small-town America in the early 40s.

“At this year’s NUS Black Students’ Conference, I had sex with someone. The other party later informed me that the sex was not ( Read more... )

Eat breakfast cereal? Lefties think you're scum.

The puzzle book that drove the country to madness. (I bought a copy in a charity shop for £1 the other day. Yes, I know they found the hare.)

Woman ends up in hospital after "confusing builder's foam with her hair mousse".

23 people getting too offended.

There is precisely one commissioned ship in the US ( Read more... )