Seeing as everyone’s talking about the monarchy in general and Prince Harry in particular, it’s worth pointing out that history only gives William slightly better than even odds of ascending the throne and acquiring all sorts of other fun titles. Queen Anne succeeded William III (who sort of succeeded himself, as he’d previously been coregnant [...]

A friend and former teacher of mine from LSE, Leda Glyptis, has set up a blog over at tsikitsiki.blogspot.com. Tsiki tsiki is, I am told, the Greek annoying, onomatopoeic expression of an annoying names. In a post on the Hellenic Republic, Leda talks about the recent riots and the threat, in Weberian terms, that they [...]

to those of you using the Julian Calendar! xD.

There’s been a lot of stuff about the fact that detox remedies are a load of rubbish, not least from the excellent Ben Goldacre on the Today programme (mp3 courtesy of BadScience.net). If anyone wants to do something useful to ‘detoxify’ by not putting nasty things into their body as part of a new year’s [...]

Iain Dale asks why we should accept people who aren’t connected with Britain from Guantánamo Bay. These are my reasons why we should. Firstly, it is in our strategic interest for two reasons. I will look at the morality and legality later, but it is enough to say that many states and people, friendly, neutral [...]

As of 2nd January, the Oyster single bus and tram fare has risen to £1 from 90p, an 11% increase (page four of this PDF). That’s more than three and half times the rate of inflation. According to the Bank of England, CPI stands at 4.1%; I suspect that it is going to fall. Travelling [...]