2026
A storm in a coffee cup
Skinny latte to go: sailing after knowledge and swimming towards understanding.
Richard Law UTC 2026-10-10 12:14
Words: 2,497; reading time: 11 minutes
The Mum he never had
Concentric circles of social control
Richard Law UTC 2026-10-03 11:04
Words: 764; reading time: 3 minutes
Scrapbook for October
Bad idea, Donald!
Richard Law UTC 2026-10-01 02:01
Words: 152; reading time: 1 minute
Switzerland's neutrality
Should this constitutional requirement be tightened up? The people have spoken.
Richard Law UTC 2026-09-27 12:18
Words: 1,016; reading time: 4 minutes
The Horizon scandal revisited
Poking around in the innards of the Horizon Scandal: a lot of expensive legal churning and a little bit of clarity.
Richard Law UTC 2026-09-23 08:12
Words: 1,955; reading time: 8 minutes
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Berlin takeaways
No change, as usual, but who knows?
Richard Law UTC 2026-09-20 18:40
Words: 1,115; reading time: 5 minutes
Updated on 2026-09-21
Niedersachsen takeaways
No change, as usual, but who knows?
Richard Law UTC 2026-09-15 10:22
Words: 353; reading time: 1 minute
Sachsen-Anhalt takeaways
No change, as usual, but who knows?
Richard Law UTC 2026-09-07 10:22
Words: 1,688; reading time: 7 minutes
Scrapbook for September
That UK traffic control shambles | Switzerland: government by wishful thinking
Richard Law UTC 2026-09-01 02:01
Words: 1,685; reading time: 7 minutes
Rainer Maria Rilke
The complicated Austro-Hungarian writer who led a complicated life and wrote complicated poetry. [3 pages]
Richard Law UTC 2026-08-27 08:17
Words: 20,350; reading time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Scrapbook for August
Germany: nothing ever changes | Hiring guidelines
Richard Law UTC 2026-08-01 02:01
Words: 436; reading time: 1 minute
Scrapbook for July
Bill the Builder
Richard Law UTC 2026-07-01 02:01
Words: 606; reading time: 2 minutes
The Valley of the Dead
Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!
Richard Law UTC 2026-06-18 16:22
Words: 4,257; reading time: 19 minutes
Updated on 2026-06-22
Swiss retail patriotism
The best-before date is long past.
Richard Law UTC 2026-06-16 09:18
Words: 1,619; reading time: 7 minutes
Ten-million Switzerland?
The people have spoken
Richard Law UTC 2026-06-14 13:40
Words: 1,533; reading time: 6 minutes
Updated on 2026-06-15
Blue pool blues
Send for the Donald and his team, they'll fix it!
Richard Law UTC 2026-06-06 09:23
Words: 876; reading time: 3 minutes
Updated on 2026-06-06
Paul Celan's Todesfuge
A poor anthem for such an immense event.
Richard Law UTC 2026-06-01 12:15
Words: 5,067; reading time: 23 minutes
Updated on 2026-06-03
Scrapbook for June
Ingeborg Bachmann | Anthem for the summer | JD's chicken coop | Jesus shall reign
Richard Law UTC 2026-06-01 02:01
Words: 1,857; reading time: 8 minutes
How to be a guru
The curse of blue-sky thinkers and similar riff-raff
Richard Law UTC 2026-05-23 08:31
Words: 1,200; reading time: 5 minutes
Switzerland alone
Switzerland in search of an enemy, or, the blind leading the blind.
Richard Law UTC 2026-05-22 18:05
Words: 1,637; reading time: 7 minutes
I've got a little list
A word with a lost past in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado'
Richard Law UTC 2026-05-17 07:13
Words: 1,928; reading time: 8 minutes
Updated on 2026-05-26
Website spring clean
A bit of tweaking to mark the emergence of the 800th article on this website.
Richard Law UTC 2026-05-01 17:08
Words: 769; reading time: 3 minutes
Scrapbook for May
Masking bad language | Always wait for Frigid Sophie
Richard Law UTC 2026-05-01 02:01
Words: 562; reading time: 2 minutes
The Battle of Fort Pillow
Massacres, just so passé!
Richard Law UTC 2026-04-12 16:15
Words: 537; reading time: 2 minutes
Scrapbook for April
More pedantry | Welsh choirboy | Pass the parcel | Revolting | Website changes | Trump's erection by the sea | USA v. Iran in 42 seconds | Why I could never be a police call handler
Richard Law UTC 2026-04-01 02:01
Words: 2,495; reading time: 11 minutes
Talking with the animals
Prof. Dr. Doolittle meets Prof. Dr. Wittgenstein. Chaos ensues.
Richard Law UTC 2026-03-10 11:14
Words: 5,047; reading time: 22 minutes
Scrapbook for March
Website changes | Narnia: not my cup of tea | Compare and contrast
Richard Law UTC 2026-03-01 02:01
Words: 1,246; reading time: 5 minutes
Where is your brother?
On the 83rd anniversary of the first judicial murders of the White Rose martyrs, excerpts of a speech given by Heinrich Böll on remembering the dead of the Nazi terror.
Richard Law UTC 2026-02-22 18:09
Words: 3,244; reading time: 14 minutes
Updated on 2026-03-14
Simple yogurt making for complicated people
What to do with leftover yak stomachs.
Richard Law UTC 2026-02-21 07:22
Words: 2,072; reading time: 9 minutes
No laughing matter
German jokes and German theatre.
Richard Law UTC 2026-02-20 09:14
Words: 1,085; reading time: 4 minutes
Swiss bankers
Lifting up the stone to see what unpleasant things are wriggling underneath.
Richard Law UTC 2026-02-08 19:02
Words: 1,102; reading time: 5 minutes
Schubert's syphilis revisited (yet again)
A critical review of One night with Venus, a lifetime with mercury
Richard Law UTC 2026-02-04 09:12
Words: 5,258; reading time: 23 minutes
Scrapbook for February
More website changes | And so to Chur | Website changes
Richard Law UTC 2026-02-01 02:01
Words: 1,358; reading time: 6 minutes
Au Moulin de la Galette, Madeleine
Enigma in the Sapphic mood
Richard Law UTC 2026-01-01 04:21
Words: 2,667; reading time: 12 minutes
Scrapbook for January
Website changes: Categories | A tough year ahead for Switzerland | Website changes
Richard Law UTC 2026-01-01 02:01
Words: 489; reading time: 2 minutes