Menu 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Home Updates list Contents list Site search About Beginning Schubert Schubert collection 2025 In Flanders Fields A third-rate poem with a first-rate fanclub. Will it never die? Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-11-19 08:11 Words: 3,033; reading time: 13 minutes Range-finding Marking Armistice Day with a poem by Robert Frost. Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-11-09 14:19 Words: 1,723; reading time: 7 minutes Beating time Getting through it somehow. Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-11-02 13:15 Words: 2,601; reading time: 11 minutes Updated on 2025-11-05 Quote and image of the month for November Erich Kästner, Sachliche Romanze; Martin Parr, A couple in a cafe Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-11-01 07:22 Words: 676; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for November Dim Charles, dim William | 'It wasn't worth it.' | Tumbrils for ten, please! Posted on UTC 2025-11-01 02:01 Words: 1,185; reading time: 5 minutes In defence of Sam Samuel Williams and his fifteen seconds of fame and lifetime of regret. Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-10-16 09:16 Words: 1,156; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2025-10-19 The Global Backlash Lashing out in word and deed. Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-10-13 08:22 Words: 947; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for October Balliol thickos of the world, unite! | Citizen Windsor | Neolithic Hobbits | Shellology | Pope Leo XIV blesses block of ice Posted on UTC 2025-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,843; reading time: 8 minutes In the Neolithic Age Kipling's witty words to his critics Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-09-30 12:06 Words: 4,446; reading time: 20 minutes Updated on 2025-10-05 Second Lieutenant John Kipling Killed in action at Loos 110 years ago Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-09-27 07:14 Words: 10,495; reading time: 47 minutes Xenophobia The thinking person's phobia Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-09-20 13:09 Words: 484; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for September More direct democracy | The new weights and measures, part II | Switzerland — direct democracy strikes again | Poor little Switzerland – EU plays hardball Posted on UTC 2025-09-01 02:01 Words: 2,687; reading time: 12 minutes Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling's tales of loss. Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-08-10 12:04 Words: 7,383; reading time: 33 minutes Updated on 2025-08-31 Two images for August Heinrich Pestalozzi, the good and the better. Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-08-02 09:03 Words: 1,243; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for August Peening | Swiss delusion | Swiss National Day Posted on UTC 2025-08-01 02:01 Words: 2,027; reading time: 9 minutes Best Beloved A book at bedtime: Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-07-27 18:14 Words: 2,997; reading time: 13 minutes Bilbo's Progress There and back again Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-07-20 07:22 Words: 7,479; reading time: 33 minutes Updated on 2025-08-14 Il Hobbit – why? Business is business Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-07-15 12:14 Words: 2,138; reading time: 9 minutes Updated on 2025-08-11 Il Hobbit Bilbo in the Swiss mountains Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-06-23 08:21 Words: 4,518; reading time: 20 minutes Updated on 2025-07-11 Scrapbook for June The new weights and measures Posted on UTC 2025-06-01 02:01 Words: 79; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for May SchMerz Posted on UTC 2025-05-01 02:01 Words: 657; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for April Beware the expert class Posted on UTC 2025-04-01 02:01 Words: 384; reading time: 1 minute Last chance for Germany After that, the game's up Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-03-17 14:00 Words: 1,080; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2025-03-18 Icon An icon for the new media age Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-03-01 17:00 Words: 992; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for March The EU rearms | Answer the door with style | Stop the war in Ukraine Posted on UTC 2025-03-01 02:01 Words: 743; reading time: 3 minutes Rösti für Winston Churchill A review of Werner Vogt's new Churchill book Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-02-18 08:00 Words: 1,668; reading time: 7 minutes Compare and contrast US dynamism, German stasis Posted on UTC 2025-02-01 11:22 Words: 1,394; reading time: 6 minutes What became of Heloise Höchner (1)? Heloise Höchner's 'Family Notes' [8 pages] Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-02-01 08:00 Words: 1,202; reading time: 5 minutes What became of Heloise Höchner (2)? Understanding Heloise's 'Family Notes' [9 pages] Posted by Richard on UTC 2025-02-01 08:00 Words: 449; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for February Germany: Putting rubber on the road | Germany: Same procedure, Miss Sophie? | Germany: One more time around the drain? | No peace like a Swiss peace | Zeitgeist and Zeitenwende in Germany | Menuhin Academy Masterclasses 2025 Posted on UTC 2025-02-01 02:01 Words: 1,843; reading time: 8 minutes Germany crawling The German decline and fall. Posted on UTC 2025-01-03 02:01 Words: 1,033; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for January The AfD: out of the shadows and into the light Posted on UTC 2025-01-01 02:01 Words: 390; reading time: 1 minute
