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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 Compare and contrast US dynamism, German stasis Posted on UTC 2025-02-01 11:22 Words: 1,394; reading time: 6 minutes Donald ducks The assassin's bullet missed, but there are consequences. Posted on UTC 2024-07-21 08:00 Words: 1,948; reading time: 8 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 April St. George's day | Even more site changes | Donald Trump vs. Father Time | Paradise lost | Thought for the Day Posted on UTC 2024-04-01 02:01 Words: 1,296; reading time: 5 minutes 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 Swiss tease Sleepy Joe? No. Hunter's laptop? No. Burisma? Ignorance is Swiss bliss. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-10-25 07:12 Words: 869; reading time: 3 minutes The lady in waiting Kamala Harris, the great unwanted – even by Democrats. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-08-13 14:14 Words: 638; reading time: 2 minutes Born in the USA The forces of destruction are not at the gates; they were born within them. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-07-20 07:13 Words: 1,064; reading time: 4 minutes The American shambles November: hoping for the least worse, whoever that might be. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-04-28 10:44 Words: 989; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2020-04-30 The Trump insight COVID-19: the cure must not be worse than the disease. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-03-23 10:33 Words: 258; reading time: 1 minute 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 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 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 Scrapbook for June Solar sucks | Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) | The Art of the Deal | Yet more site changes | More site changes | Site changes | Trump meets Rump Posted on UTC 2018-06-01 02:01 Words: 1,123; reading time: 5 minutes Peter Winkler reports from Planet Zog At last, the Swiss get to hear the truth about that Trump chap. It's worse than they thought. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-22 10:49 Words: 1,322; reading time: 6 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 Mass shootings in the USA No quick fix, no easy solution. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-23 10:49 Words: 861; reading time: 3 minutes It's a hard life at the FBI Maybe get a blister on your little finger. Maybe get a blister on your thumb. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-08 13:01 Words: 580; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on 2018-02-25 Watergate through the looking glass No smoking gun but a lot of mirrors. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-05 10:07 Words: 840; reading time: 3 minutes Desperately hating Donald The German-speaking media opines on President Trump's SOTUS speech. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-02 22:19 Words: 4,993; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2018-02-07 Hotting things up in the USA A guide to making measurements fit the theory. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-01-19 15:20 Words: 797; reading time: 3 minutes 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 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 Scrapbook for October CSI: Las Vegas – Crime Scene Incompetence | More days of autumn | British beer | Stag hunting | The twelve days of autumn | Swiss family picnic | Dice rolling by a skilled opponent | The unseen cost of wind [energy] Posted on UTC 2017-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,269; reading time: 5 minutes 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 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 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 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 Finding Trumpy The four unaccounted hours of the most powerful man on earth. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-02-01 10:51 Words: 239; reading time: 1 minute 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 The media: Nixon's revenge Fings ain't wot they used to be. Better get used to it and stop grumbling. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-02-01 07:33 Words: 1,104; reading time: 5 minutes We'll do it our way Blaming the Amis the European way. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-01-19 10:26 Words: 1,004; reading time: 4 minutes 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 Scrapbook for December Editor's note | Himmel und Hölle | Another mystery of modern life | Turning spare kids into money | Shutting stable doors | FoS website change | Testing for Microsoft | Thank you, President Putin! Posted on UTC 2016-12-01 02:01 Words: 1,481; reading time: 6 minutes Judge Judy, the Divine Comedy for our times The TV programme is a moral compass among the lost souls of modern America. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-12-20 13:15 Words: 1,653; reading time: 7 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 Schiaparelli Yet another European bites the dust on the red ink planet. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-10-20 10:52 Words: 1,149; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2018-11-27 Scrapbook for September Late learning | Immigrants, always resented | Snowflake of the Month | Design update | Feed a cold, starve a fever | One mystery fewer | Restoration and reconstruction | Missing links | The medium is the message, Tim | Quelle finesse! Posted on UTC 2016-09-01 02:01 Words: 2,120; reading time: 9 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 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 At the court of the Sun Queen One of Hillary Clinton's courtiers speaks out: the result is not reassuring. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-28 09:37 Words: 912; reading time: 4 minutes For the greater glory of God: Benjamin Franklin The servant of the Calvinist God follows a programme of self-improvement. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-01 07:47 Words: 2,026; reading time: 9 minutes
