2025

Bah, humbug!

That time of year when the mass delusions come thick and fast, even in Switzerland.

Richard Law UTC 2025-12-14 10:23

Words: 1,545; reading time: 7 minutes

Updated on 2026-05-12

Scrapbook for December

Christmas tips

UTC 2025-12-01 02:01

Words: 5; reading time: 1 minute

In Flanders Fields

A third-rate poem with a first-rate fanclub. Will it never die?

Richard Law UTC 2025-11-19 08:11

Words: 3,429; reading time: 15 minutes

Updated on 2025-12-21

Range-finding

Marking Armistice Day with a poem by Robert Frost.

Richard Law UTC 2025-11-09 14:19

Words: 1,723; reading time: 7 minutes

Beating time

Getting through it somehow.

Richard Law 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

Richard Law UTC 2025-11-01 07:22

Words: 684; reading time: 3 minutes

Scrapbook for November

Dim Charles, dim William | 'It wasn't worth it.' | Tumbrils for ten, please!

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.

Richard Law UTC 2025-10-16 09:16

Words: 1,417; reading time: 6 minutes

Updated on 2026-03-03

The Global Backlash

Lashing out in word and deed.

Richard Law 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

UTC 2025-10-01 02:01

Words: 1,843; reading time: 8 minutes

In the Neolithic Age

Kipling's witty words to his critics

Richard Law UTC 2025-09-30 12:06

Words: 4,883; reading time: 22 minutes

Updated on 2026-02-15

Second Lieutenant John Kipling

Killed in action at Loos 110 years ago

Richard Law UTC 2025-09-27 07:14

Words: 10,495; reading time: 47 minutes

Xenophobia

The thinking person's phobia

Richard Law UTC 2025-09-20 13:09

Words: 612; reading time: 2 minutes

Updated on 2026-03-05

Scrapbook for September

More direct democracy | The new weights and measures, part II | Switzerland — direct democracy strikes again | Poor little Switzerland – EU plays hardball

UTC 2025-09-01 02:01

Words: 2,687; reading time: 12 minutes

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling's tales of loss.

Richard Law 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.

Richard Law UTC 2025-08-02 09:03

Words: 1,243; reading time: 5 minutes

Scrapbook for August

Peening | Swiss delusion | Swiss National Day

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

Richard Law UTC 2025-07-27 18:14

Words: 2,997; reading time: 13 minutes

Bilbo's Progress

There and back again

Richard Law UTC 2025-07-20 07:22

Words: 7,483; reading time: 34 minutes

Updated on 2025-08-14

Il Hobbit – why?

Business is business

Richard Law 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

Richard Law 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

UTC 2025-06-01 02:01

Words: 79; reading time: 1 minute

Scrapbook for May

SchMerz

UTC 2025-05-01 02:01

Words: 657; reading time: 2 minutes

Scrapbook for April

Beware the expert class

UTC 2025-04-01 02:01

Words: 384; reading time: 1 minute

Last chance for Germany

After that, the game's up

Richard Law 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

Richard Law 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

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

Richard Law UTC 2025-02-18 08:00

Words: 1,668; reading time: 7 minutes

Compare and contrast

US dynamism, German stasis

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]

Richard Law UTC 2025-02-01 08:00

Words: 35,022; reading time: 2 hours 39 minutes

What became of Heloise Höchner? (2)

Understanding Heloise's 'Family Notes'. [9 pages]

Richard Law UTC 2025-02-01 08:00

Words: 13,826; reading time: 1 hour 2 minutes

Scrapbook for February

UTC 2025-02-01 02:01

Words: 1,844; reading time: 8 minutes

Germany crawling

The German decline and fall.

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

UTC 2025-01-01 02:01

Words: 390; reading time: 1 minute