January 2018

Quote and image of the month

Quote: Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie. Image: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night.

Scrapbook

Germany: no change – as usual | The End of the Rainbow | A word to the wise | Ordinary Passengers | Our solitary aspen cluster | NHS excuse of the week | Envy-of-the-World™ – no change | Warpaint | Eight dummies and a funeral

Franz Schubert's 31st birthday

31 January 1828. Celebrating his last birthday with a big hit.

Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-30 08:32.

January 1818: Franz Schubert dodges the draft

Saved for musical posterity by three quarters of an inch.

Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-24 17:15.
Updated on UTC 2018-02-14

21 January: Saint Meinrad's Day

Clubbing in the Dark Forest. Even the ravens were upset.

Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-01-21 08:12.

Hotting things up in the USA

A guide to making measurements fit the theory.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-01-19 15:20.

Swiss Government-sponsored CAGW alarmism

Does the Swiss Federal Metereological Office actually believe the stuff they write? We hope not.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-01-18 10:22.
Updated on UTC 2018-01-30

Gary Oldman shines in Darkest Hour

An actor with Winston Churchill's DNA – A review of Joe Wright's film Darkest Hour.

Posted by Werner Vogt on UTC 2018-01-16 07:19.

The Base and the Superstructure

Why you can never control social media. It is what it is.

Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-14 14:37.
Updated on UTC 2018-01-14

W.H. Auden's poem The Witnesses

Poetry for the social media age.

Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-10 14:56.

What Theresa did next

Our puzzled readers write.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-01-09 10:14.

Hole in the wall

The one in the north wall of the Eiger.

Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-01-06 15:55.

Mistrust of strangers

Too late for Mia Valentin.

Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-01-05 08:23.
Updated on UTC 2018-02-20

New Year's greetings from the fuzz

The police in Cologne spreading happiness around.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-01-02 16:40.

Two Swiss railway station waiting-room murals

Witnessing the collapse of civilisation. Perhaps.

Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-01-02 10:17.

Were the Nazis left-wing extremists?

Yes.

Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-01-01 07:03.

New Year's Greetings from the Oxford Sausage, 1772

Student humour 245 years ago. No safe spaces here.

Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-01-01 07:12.