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Iran in 42 seconds | Why I could never be a police call handler Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2026-04-01 02:01 Words: 2,495; reading time: 11 minutes Scrapbook for March Website changes | Narnia: not my cup of tea | Compare and contrast Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2026-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,246; reading time: 5 minutes Beating time Getting through it somehow. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2025-11-02 13:15 Words: 2,601; reading time: 11 minutes Updated on 2025-11-05 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 Law on UTC 2025-10-16 09:16 Words: 1,417; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2026-03-03 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 Scrapbook for August Crumpling Charlie Posted on UTC 2024-08-01 02:01 Words: 112; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for July Ukraine: Nigel was right Posted on UTC 2024-07-01 02:01 Words: 662; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for June After that debate | Not so obvious, Rod | Mad dogs and Englishmen Posted on UTC 2024-06-01 02:01 Words: 1,478; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for March Vote Reform UK, get Labour | Princess Imperfect | The sublime and the ridiculous | Playing with fire in the Ukraine Posted on UTC 2024-03-01 02:01 Words: 2,611; reading time: 11 minutes Immigration and the lost world Immigration: the great unforced error which transformed Britain — and sealed tongues. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2024-02-23 14:50 Words: 6,383; reading time: 29 minutes Updated on 2024-02-26 The Horizon scandal Modern Britain looks in the mirror: How did it come to this? Here's how. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2024-01-12 01:01 Words: 4,125; reading time: 18 minutes Updated on 2024-03-28 Shuffling to disaster Rule by wally, UK style. Useless Members of Parliament become useless government ministers and, having achieved peak uselessness, are richly rewarded. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2023-06-01 14:11 Words: 2,534; reading time: 11 minutes Down the currency plughole Is the value of a nation reflected in the value of its currency? A look at the decline of the pound sterling in the reign of Elizabeth II, 1953-2023. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2023-05-01 14:11 Words: 2,065; reading time: 9 minutes The National Health Service at 75 Still crazy after all these years. Do not resuscitate. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2023-02-01 14:11 Words: 5,765; reading time: 26 minutes Boris Notgodunov Will this dreary opera never end? Yes, but not the way you think. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2022-07-20 09:43 Words: 1,271; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2022-07-20 Scrapbook for November Cometh the hour, cometh the man Posted on UTC 2021-11-01 02:01 Words: 168; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for October T-Rex | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden? | Good breeding | Website changes | German Federal Election 2021 | Foraging for fungi Posted on UTC 2021-10-01 02:01 Words: 2,163; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for November Pricks R Us | Captain Foresight | Election eve | Nigel Farage in search of a cause | Deniers Posted on UTC 2020-11-01 02:01 Words: 1,773; reading time: 8 minutes Scrapbook for August FoS website changes | The guess: the new real | Only a matter of time… | Page view statistics | The Slough of Despond, then and now | This cannot end well | Sweet-rationing in the UK | Too clever by half | Hobby horse, gnomic edition Posted on UTC 2020-08-01 02:01 Words: 1,710; reading time: 7 minutes Scrapbook for July The Railway Man prince | Eighteen shades of incompetence Posted on UTC 2020-07-01 02:01 Words: 237; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for May Not the Age of Reason | 'Latest comments' panel | Clap for the NHS | What would Treebeard say? Posted on UTC 2020-05-01 02:01 Words: 848; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for April Who's that train? | Schubert portrait 'Young Franz Schubert' Posted on UTC 2020-04-01 02:01 Words: 592; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for March COVID-19 sanity check | Disgusting | Thuggery | New site navigation | Saint Joseph's Day | Can the UK National Health Service cope with COVID-19? | Do not touch me, woman | Two inspectors call | And don't step in the excrement | Country music for the doolally | The Schubert guide to handwashing | Before social media Posted on UTC 2020-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,893; reading time: 8 minutes Beyond bananas Meghan and Harry's message to a grateful world. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-03-19 16:08 Words: 853; reading time: 3 minutes The greening of Boris™ Climate sceptic to climate alarmist in six months. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-03-08 14:20 Words: 314; reading time: 1 minute Mr Cherry Certainly gone, but still not forgotten. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-03-08 10:12 Words: 1,986; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for February More COVID-19, among other things | Government by weirdo | Lest we forget | Brexit smoke and mirrors Posted on UTC 2020-02-01 02:01 Words: 1,531; reading time: 6 minutes Trust me, I'm from MI5 Searching for signs of intelligence in the UK intelligence services. So far, none found. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-02-25 16:22 Words: 1,446; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for December Legitimacy restored Posted on UTC 2019-12-01 02:01 Words: 239; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for November In the bleak midwinter | 240 years ago today | The illustrated Schubert collection | A Boris™ Johnson lie tracker Posted on UTC 2019-11-01 02:01 Words: 764; reading time: 3 minutes Wrecking the Brexit Party brand Nigel breaks his new toy. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-11-12 13:27 Words: 1,012; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2019-11-13 Dice throwing for beginners The inscrutable UK election on 12 December. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-11-04 17:32 Words: 723; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for October Citation functionality changes | That Brexit Deal thingy | A geological excursion | Greta Thunberg: climate victim (2) Posted on UTC 2019-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,260; reading time: 5 minutes Boris™ blusters on The terror of the empty ditch on Halloween: is the corpse still walking the earth? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-10-29 11:04 Words: 855; reading time: 3 minutes Dividing the two Irelands More at stake than the administrative fudge of a 'backstop'. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-10-15 14:09 Words: 1,258; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2019-10-20 Scrapbook for September The Brexit deal explained | On the rug edge | Half-baked | Dim and dimmer | Greta Thunberg: climate victim | Home page illustrations | Die Schöne Müllerin website Posted on UTC 2019-09-01 02:01 Words: 1,273; reading time: 5 minutes Boris™ in the bunker The end cannot come soon enough for the incredible one. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-09-19 11:16 Words: 1,272; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2019-10-07 David Cameron Risen from the crypt but still not getting it. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-09-18 08:43 Words: 937; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2019-09-19 Scrapbook for August Tempting fate | The Dam Busters | Contempt karma Posted on UTC 2019-08-01 02:01 Words: 312; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for July Boris™ again | Remainers still at the controls | On the moon | Carl Gustaf saves the planet Posted on UTC 2019-07-01 02:01 Words: 330; reading time: 1 minute Boris™ blusters A ten-minute rhetorical shambles from the new UK Solon. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-07-27 13:14 Words: 5,239; reading time: 23 minutes Boris™ Start as you mean to go on – with a shambles. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-07-24 09:30 Words: 458; reading time: 2 minutes Nothing has been learned Looking in vain for some backbone in dealing with Iran. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-07-21 09:22 Words: 576; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for June Boris the Card | Lindenbaum | The choice is theirs | News from the asylum | The last insanity Posted on UTC 2019-06-01 02:01 Words: 863; reading time: 3 minutes Could a UK prime minister be worse than Theresa May? We are about to find out. The dreary political months in prospect in the UK. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-06-10 10:43 Words: 1,044; reading time: 4 minutes The European Parliament election 2019 No comfort for Brexiters as the green-red tsunami rolls on. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-05-27 09:07 Words: 763; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2019-05-27 The Tory party at prayer They are going to need all the divine intervention they can get. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-05-26 13:09 Words: 911; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for April Blending in | David Lama | Sunday morning coming down | Lest we forget | To leave or not to leave… Posted on UTC 2019-04-01 02:01 Words: 1,339; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for March Pete North: defiant to the end Posted on UTC 2019-03-01 02:01 Words: 344; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for February New: citation function | Let them eat plastic | http/https on Figures of Speech Posted on UTC 2019-02-01 02:01 Words: 598; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for January Brexit: Are we there, yet? | Why was this website taken offline etc.? Posted on UTC 2019-01-01 02:01 Words: 541; reading time: 2 minutes Brexit: the end is in sight But what end would that be? Who knows? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-01-17 11:12 Words: 520; reading time: 2 minutes Thoughts for the coming year But no tidings of comfort and joy. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-12-14 14:38 Words: 1,700; reading time: 7 minutes Scrapbook for November More Envy of the World™ | InSight lands on Mars | Something for the flag experts | Three-bar flags | Good idea, Angela! | Our aspen | More means less Posted on UTC 2018-11-01 02:01 Words: 578; reading time: 2 minutes Brexit: where there's life, there's hope Parliament 1 : People 0. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-11-24 14:11 Words: 526; reading time: 2 minutes Empty gestures make most noise The fake pieties of Armistice Day keep coming. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-11-08 15:30 Words: 1,281; reading time: 5 minutes Richard North, the angry Sage of Bradford Up a fjord without a paddle. 'My beautiful Flexcit! Wrecked, I tell you, all wrecked.' Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-11-02 16:53 Words: 988; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for October Kubitschek: down but not out | Aspen calm | The Great British Winter Festival | Gottfried Keller's 'Dreambook' Posted on UTC 2018-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,722; reading time: 7 minutes Scrapbook for September Lunacy of the Year award | Of moles and men | Late summer Tennyson Posted on UTC 2018-09-01 02:01 Words: 683; reading time: 3 minutes Is Theresa May the bottom of the U-bend? Probably not: it appears to be one long pipe going straight down. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-09-21 18:54 Words: 746; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for August Rattling the begging bowl | Coexistance | Ten to three | The noise of apples falling from trees | Tommy Robinson free | The obituary from Hell Posted on UTC 2018-08-01 02:01 Words: 2,056; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for July Two lettuce leaves short of a salad | Tommy Robinson | For your diary | Our aspen in summer | Here we go again | Don't do it, Vernon! | The free market | That Brexit shambles | Novichok: the story so far Posted on UTC 2018-07-01 02:01 Words: 1,434; reading time: 6 minutes Brexit: statements to remember Just make sure you remember them correctly. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-07-14 10:02 Words: 1,000; reading time: 4 minutes 5 July 1948: 70 years of the NHS soup kitchen It could have been worse. No, it couldn't. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-06-25 07:44 Words: 4,242; reading time: 19 minutes Updated on 2018-10-13 Scrapbook for May Site changes | Yulia Skripal | Yet more on the GDPR | The GDPR(?) | UK trade post-Brexit | Playing the Windsors | Comment of the day | That time of year when… | 999 blue balloons | Site changes Posted on UTC 2018-05-01 02:01 Words: 1,416; reading time: 6 minutes Tommy Robinson: jailbird That'll learn him. We certainly hope so. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-28 10:14 Words: 5,048; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2018-06-14 Richard North: still bouncing off the walls A quick glimpse through the peephole of his padded cell. No change – best not open the door. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-27 10:12 Words: 910; reading time: 4 minutes British Republic Day 20 May 2018 was the start; the end will come sooner than anyone thinks. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-21 11:12 Words: 1,194; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2018-07-18 Staring into the cultural abyss A wedding that will be remembered – but for all the wrong reasons. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-20 08:14 Words: 1,388; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2018-05-21 Brexit and Ireland Let the UK have a fresh start with Ireland. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-18 16:46 Words: 759; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2018-07-13 Diana's revenge The fall of the House of Windsor: coming along nicely. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-16 16:20 Words: 617; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for April King Louis | Pallywood | The art of wellbeing tour | Sun Queen nuts | Germany: Toddlers mixing paint | Patience Posted on UTC 2018-04-01 02:01 Words: 669; reading time: 3 minutes The case of Alfie Evans Awful. In every respect. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-04-29 13:02 Words: 1,090; reading time: 4 minutes The poisoning of the Skripals An opera buffa of Wagnerian length, lacking all humour. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-04-06 13:03 Words: 660; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for March The cloud of unknowing | Nerve gas: you ask, we answer. | The cheque's in the post | Amelia Earhart | Persil Man | Dog-bites-man Posted on UTC 2018-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,139; reading time: 5 minutes 21 March 1918: Operation Michael The beginning of the end of the First World War, one hundred years ago. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-03-20 07:22 Words: 1,714; reading time: 7 minutes To Charlotte While Shaving A remarkably prescient verse portrait of the childhood of Theresa May. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-03-01 07:24 Words: 440; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for February Dementia and alcohol | A new dawn breaks | Deplorable fake news | Not so grand Coalition | Germany: Grand Coalition defined | Cuprinol Man Posted on UTC 2018-02-01 02:01 Words: 1,699; reading time: 7 minutes Kippered Kirsty: a lesson to us all In defence of the unreasonable, the bloody-minded and the pig-headed amongst us. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-21 10:12 Words: 1,077; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2018-02-24 The Peter Principle – May extension Every day more and more people ask themselves: How did someone as dim and incompetent as Theresa May get to be Prime Minister of Britain? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-01 07:34 Words: 3,658; reading time: 16 minutes Updated on 2018-02-24 Scrapbook for January 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 Posted on UTC 2018-01-01 02:01 Words: 1,438; reading time: 6 minutes What Theresa did next Our puzzled readers write. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-01-09 10:14 Words: 134; reading time: 1 minute New Year's Greetings from the Oxford Sausage, 1772 Student humour 245 years ago. No safe spaces here. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-01-01 07:12 Words: 63; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for December 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' | You have been warned! | A puzzle we can answer | Every terror cloud has a silver lining | Grumpy Monday | Dim and Dhimmi | Judith: not to be messed with Posted on UTC 2017-12-01 02:01 Words: 845; reading time: 3 minutes The Windsors: only a matter of time A grumpy end of year report. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-12-28 14:16 Words: 1,164; reading time: 5 minutes Strategic goals for the UK post Brexit A least someone in the UK is thinking strategically. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-12-18 13:37 Words: 183; reading time: 1 minute Rocks, hard places, cherries and unsquared circles A Swiss view of the Brexit negotiations – as baffled as everyone else. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-12-16 09:41 Words: 609; reading time: 2 minutes Brexit: all you need to know so far Ten days of Dim Theresa. It could have been worse. Actually, no. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-12-14 16:13 Words: 153; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for November Don't worry, be happy | Shaping the science agenda | Diana's revenge | Peace at last | Thanksgiving | Dim and dangerous | Site changes | Distraction therapy | Still on your own Posted on UTC 2017-11-01 02:01 Words: 1,331; reading time: 6 minutes Richard North beyond redemption A quick glance through the peephole of his padded cell. There's no hope for this one. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-11-28 11:37 Words: 769; reading time: 3 minutes Sheer uselessness Counting down to Christmas the UK Government way. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-11-09 16:22 Words: 919; reading time: 4 minutes An outrageous libel of a dead hero 2 Beyond the press reports it's worse than we thought. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-11-05 12:16 Words: 29,588; reading time: 2hours 14 minutes The UK Communications Act 2003 The process is the punishment, yet again. Think on. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-10-18 10:53 Words: 761; reading time: 3 minutes An outrageous libel of a dead hero Smears and innuendoes come easily to climate scientists. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-10-07 11:13 Words: 989; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2017-11-05 Mrs Shopping-List meets Pericles Not a good match. Even the slogan needs to get a grip. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-10-05 11:01 Words: 1,771; reading time: 8 minutes Updated on 2017-10-06 Scrapbook for September Last supper [updated] | A century of progress | Please, Lord, let they handmaid depart in peace (ASAP). | Keeping an eye on the Germans | The school run – alpine style | How to become a published author Posted on UTC 2017-09-01 02:01 Words: 726; reading time: 3 minutes The Envy-of-the-World™: solution found! More of it. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-09-30 10:21 Words: 752; reading time: 3 minutes Still on your own Wear a bin-bag over your head and a bullet-proof vest. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-09-24 09:23 Words: 449; reading time: 2 minutes Theresa goes shopping in Florence The shopping-list Prime Minister does the Renaissance. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-09-23 12:02 Words: 1,338; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for August Decanting the dregs | That Google diversity thing Posted on UTC 2017-08-01 02:01 Words: 274; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for July The Grenfell fire: the EU fingerprint | Getting the most out of solar panels | What's in a name®? | Planet Snowball with brief warm spells Posted on UTC 2017-07-01 02:01 Words: 493; reading time: 2 minutes The German connection 100 years ago, on 17 July 1917, the Windsors emerged into a grateful world. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-07-01 16:15 Words: 768; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for June Progress Illinois Style | Arnie's smallest audience | Dim and dimmer | Pulling teeth | Summer solstice | Trump: the first five months | North update: no hope | Steady as she goes | Jack of all trades, master of none | The art of political survival | No wheels on her waggon | Tesla – makes your hair stand on end | Hung parliament, unfortunately not properly | Swedish National Day | One proxy reconstruction doth not a denial make. Fifty-eight: probably | Smile, you're on Candid Camera | Lucky Lukens | Enough is enough | Breakfast like an emperor Posted on UTC 2017-06-01 02:01 Words: 3,931; reading time: 17 minutes Herd management The knock on the door in the night. It's for your own good. Really. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-06-25 11:22 Words: 1,220; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2017-06-29 UK sovereignty. Then what? Some thoughts for laundry-list minds. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-06-14 07:38 Words: 1,519; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for May Still on your own | That Tory manifesto | The path of healing | Our Swiss sunbeam expert writes | The rich: not like us Posted on UTC 2017-05-01 02:01 Words: 846; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for March Martin McGuinness | Something that could not have been said ten years ago | Federal Bureau of Indeterminateness | PR, the European disease | Tour d'horizon (desperation edition) Posted on UTC 2017-03-01 02:01 Words: 977; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for February Jack of all trades… | Site changes | Samoyeds | Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, reloaded | Scandi noir blacker humour | The Envy-of-the-World™, again | The madness of Prince Charlie | Scandi noir black humour | John Bates, whistleblower | Whose side is North on? | Myron Ebell at the GWPF | Sir Detail and friend | Snowflakes of the month Posted on UTC 2017-02-01 02:01 Words: 2,664; reading time: 12 minutes Alistair Cooke: urbane BBC opiner If only Letter from America had taken comments. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-02-01 07:32 Words: 2,870; reading time: 13 minutes Scrapbook for January Wimmin's busts | Faking it | Swiss snowflakes losing it | George Mikes: an oldie but goldie | Two simple questions that men cannot answer | The poor Hamburger, the poor Berliner | Rail travel costs Posted on UTC 2017-01-01 02:01 Words: 1,352; reading time: 6 minutes Charlie to the rescue The future King saves the world with a stroke of his pen and becomes a peer-reviewed prince. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-01-15 11:33 Words: 944; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2017-01-23 Blacking up for beginners The harmless pleasures of byegone days. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-01-15 11:27 Words: 1,235; reading time: 5 minutes Facing facts in the post-fact era Few facts, not much truth and plenty of fake news. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-01-03 09:32 Words: 2,459; reading time: 11 minutes Scrapbook for November Envy-of-the-World™ – again | Snowflakes of the Month | Back to the palace | Pointless polling | North gets it – not really | Nigel Farage | Trump: change and hopes | FoS website restructured | All Saints' and All Souls' Days 2016 | Emailing for dummies Posted on UTC 2016-11-01 02:01 Words: 2,049; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for October More intimations of mortality | Alan Turing, useful genius | Dismantling Hillary | Aberfan: a tale of two inquiries | Matt Ridley: Global Warming versus Global Greening | Snowflake of the Month | A grave question | More Waugh | The plague of politics | Intimations of mortality | Mummy knows best | Looking over your shoulder | Spare the rod Posted on UTC 2016-10-01 02:01 Words: 2,553; reading time: 11 minutes The conquering hero That Batley and Spen by-election. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-21 10:12 Words: 579; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for July Turkey: the choice | You ask, we answer | Two charts | Respected journalist | Hip dysplasia | Goddess | In video we trust | The chosen ones choose | Boots Posted on UTC 2016-07-01 02:01 Words: 1,031; reading time: 4 minutes The Bastille Spirit The Green Fairy is not your friend, Brendan. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-07-17 08:08 Words: 869; reading time: 3 minutes Andrea Leadsom, next Prime Minister of the UK Without a shadow of a doubt. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-07-08 18:30 Words: 1,666; reading time: 7 minutes Updated on 2016-07-12 Dinner in the desert Help yourself to whatever you want; the choice is yours. Just don't vomit on your host. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-07-08 10:01 Words: 567; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for June Leave means leave | Jo Cox™: the people speak | Hitting nail on head time | Jo Cox™ | Journalist falls off bar stool | Richard North's posting pause | Mark of respect | Nutjob loners | The funeral parlour | Gotthard conundrum | Envy-of-the-World™ | Gotthard tunnel. Gotthard tunnel? | Brown people Posted on UTC 2016-06-01 02:01 Words: 2,375; reading time: 10 minutes The Tory Chosen Ones Toeing the party line. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-28 10:35 Words: 428; reading time: 1 minute EU Referendum, mopping up First thoughts after the non-deluge. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-24 09:58 Words: 646; reading time: 2 minutes Voters Now you see them, now you don't. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-23 08:11 Words: 156; reading time: 1 minute Infamous last words For all things there is a time: a time to sniff; a time hold your nose and look away. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-19 06:54 Words: 933; reading time: 4 minutes The alien hatches Blood on the body, the table, the walls and the floor – just don't mention the Tiber. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-09 10:12 Words: 1,323; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2016-06-24 Ignorant? Uninformed? Thick? We would really like to have your considered opinion on Brexit. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-06 09:02 Words: 584; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on 2016-06-09 No X please, you're not British An electoral shambles, just what is needed for a close-run referendum result. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-03 09:32 Words: 1,576; reading time: 7 minutes Updated on 2016-06-23 Scrapbook for May Equation | Not a good end | The Donald | How to feel inadequate | Unbalanced revulsion | Le Temps des cerises Posted on UTC 2016-05-01 02:01 Words: 1,031; reading time: 4 minutes European wars Your cut-out-and-keep guide, specially designed for the use of British Prime Ministers. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-10 14:54 Words: 338; reading time: 1 minute The EU referendum to date An incoherent shambles, totally predictable. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-04 08:19 Words: 905; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for April Aide-memoire | #BringBackOurMen | Heartwarming | Dressing gown | Boaty McBoatface | John Whittingdale, chick magnet | The devastating power of hashtags | The terrorists are winning | Butch Spaniards on the rampage | A helpful tip for savers | Headline of the year candidate | The helping hand Posted on UTC 2016-04-01 02:01 Words: 2,509; reading time: 11 minutes Richard North Psychiatric case review: condition worsening. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-04-14 16:17 Words: 1,771; reading time: 8 minutes Updated on 2016-08-16 Scrapbook for March Tears: an instrument of foreign policy | Wasting police time | Headline of the year award | Rigour, not mortis | Geography made easy | The god of the forest | Hyacinth time | Swiss referendum updates | The Dohlen are here! Posted on UTC 2016-03-01 02:01 Words: 750; reading time: 3 minutes Bedsheet, spreadsheet How much is your health worth to you? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-03-24 15:17 Words: 3,147; reading time: 14 minutes Updated on 2016-11-16 Scrapbook Solar Impulse update | Spare the rod, spoil the child | Swiss snow having orderly fun | The propagation of nonsense | Accumulated wisdom | Some more people not saying things | Eamonn and Ruth's little secret | Headline of the year award Posted on UTC 2016-02-01 02:01 Words: 936; reading time: 4 minutes False gods in graven images Will the real John Walker please stand up? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-02-17 15:12 Words: 1,537; reading time: 6 minutes Not like us Our continental friends, God bless them! Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-01-25 07:35 Words: 2,821; reading time: 12 minutes Updated on 2016-05-07 Fidei defensor Defender of the faith: The Christmas message of the second in line to the British throne. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-12-06 16:31 Words: 113; reading time: 1 minute EU referendum: No thank you! Holding a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union is more than slightly bonkers. If it didn't work in 1975, why will it work now? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-10-13 11:26 Words: 2,320; reading time: 10 minutes Updated on 2016-02-05 Democracy and delegation Quote of the day: Modern democracy and delegation from an Ancient Greek perspective. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-10-09 15:07 Words: 227; reading time: 1 minute Greenwich Dump Time Greenwich Gasworks, where are you now? Don't ask. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-09-15 17:07 Words: 2,084; reading time: 9 minutes
