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ephemeral 80s : a side project from Curios British Telly   informal collaborator : methods of surveillance and monitoring by the Iron Curt...

One cannot presume to speak for the strategy that may be behind the decision of the royal family and the prime minister to go ahead with ho...

Via Metafilter , we learn that a cross-bench committee of peers of the House of Lords are debating amendments to the planning and infrast...

Having been previously exposed to a select body of work from the underground filmmaker whose short pieces experiment of themes of the surrea...

the free encyclopaedia : why Wikipedia works— see more   steeple with tyneham : 1970 reportage on the ghost village taken over by the Minist...

With two thousand invited guests in attendance in Westminster Abbey, the route through London lined with over a million and two-and-a-half-...

Via Nag on the Lake and Memo of the Air —although we could not really really find any affinity—nor notes for—this catalogue of the weirde...

Although pidgin dialects (widely believed to be a distortion of the English word for business rather than the folk etymology from a messen...

elbows up : on his way to attend the G7 in Canada, Macron visits Greenland, criticising Trump’s repeated overtures to annex the island— see ...

We appreciated the chance to revisit the works of graphic designer Edward Wadsworth , best known as a forerunner of the art movement known...

Released on this day in 1969, Empty Sky is Elton John’s debut studio album, and the harpsichord track (later remastered with piano and orch...

The masthead logo of the counter-culture alternative newspaper in print from 1966 to 1973 featured the image of vampish 1920s silent f...

Recalling how their leak of the covert Zimmermann telegram with the German Empire promising to award the lost territories of Texas, Arizona...

anachronymy : a shopping list of items, like pencil lead, that are technically misnomers but accepted by convention— see also   there wer...

Via our peripatetic companion, Messy Nessy Chic , we learn that the iconic anchor antique shop, Alice’s , of the famous fleamarket mile of...

With today being International Crab Day, around since Jurassic times and with one of the most complex and contentious cladograms in Natu...

The production team behind the difficult Netflix series Adolescence about incel culture has announced it will reboot the incredibly bleak ...

In between issuing two new executive orders designed to further undermine recent judicial decisions against the assault on the adminis...

Courtesy of our faithful chronicler , we learn that on this day in 1914 suffragette and activist Mary Raleigh Richardson walked into the ...

Via the always engrossing Things Magazine , we are directed towards the vexing but useful author and astrologer of German extraction em...