HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 142 articles in category 'UK'. Scrapbook for March Website changes | Narnia: not my cup of tea | Compare and contrast Posted on UTC 2026-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,246; reading time: 5 minutes Beating time Getting through it somehow. Posted on UTC 2025-11-02 13:15 Words: 2,601; reading time: 11 minutes Updated on UTC 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 on UTC 2025-10-16 09:16 Words: 1,417; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on UTC 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 on UTC 2024-02-23 14:50 Words: 6,386; reading time: 29 minutes Updated on UTC 2024-02-26 The Horizon scandal Modern Britain looks in the mirror: How did it come to this? Here's how. Posted on UTC 2024-01-12 01:01 Words: 4,125; reading time: 18 minutes Updated on UTC 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2022-07-20 09:43 Words: 1,271; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on UTC 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 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 on UTC 2020-03-08 14:20 Words: 314; reading time: 1 minute Mr Cherry Certainly gone, but still not forgotten. Posted 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 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 on UTC 2019-11-12 13:27 Words: 1,012; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on UTC 2019-11-13 Dice throwing for beginners The inscrutable UK election on 12 December. Posted 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 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 on UTC 2019-10-15 14:09 Words: 1,258; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on UTC 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 on UTC 2019-09-19 11:16 Words: 1,272; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on UTC 2019-10-07 David Cameron Risen from the crypt but still not getting it. Posted on UTC 2019-09-18 08:43 Words: 937; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on UTC 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 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2019-05-27 09:07 Words: 763; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on UTC 2019-05-27 The Tory party at prayer They are going to need all the divine intervention they can get. Posted 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2018-07-14 10:02 Words: 1,005; reading time: 4 minutes 5 July 1948: 70 years of the NHS soup kitchen It could have been worse. No, it couldn't. Posted on UTC 2018-06-25 07:44 Words: 4,242; reading time: 19 minutes Updated on UTC 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 on UTC 2018-05-28 10:14 Words: 5,048; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on UTC 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 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 on UTC 2018-05-21 11:12 Words: 1,194; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on UTC 2018-07-18 Staring into the cultural abyss A wedding that will be remembered – but for all the wrong reasons. Posted on UTC 2018-05-20 08:14 Words: 1,388; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on UTC 2018-05-21 Brexit and Ireland Let the UK have a fresh start with Ireland. Posted on UTC 2018-05-18 16:46 Words: 759; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on UTC 2018-07-13 Diana's revenge The fall of the House of Windsor: coming along nicely. Posted 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 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2018-02-21 10:12 Words: 1,077; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on UTC 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 on UTC 2018-02-01 07:34 Words: 3,658; reading time: 16 minutes Updated on UTC 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2017-11-28 11:37 Words: 769; reading time: 3 minutes Sheer uselessness Counting down to Christmas the UK Government way. Posted 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 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 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 on UTC 2017-10-07 11:13 Words: 989; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on UTC 2017-11-05 Mrs Shopping-List meets Pericles Not a good match. Even the slogan needs to get a grip. Posted on UTC 2017-10-05 11:01 Words: 1,771; reading time: 8 minutes Updated on UTC 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 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2017-06-25 11:22 Words: 1,220; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on UTC 2017-06-29 UK sovereignty. Then what? Some thoughts for laundry-list minds. Posted 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 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 on UTC 2017-01-15 11:33 Words: 944; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on UTC 2017-01-23 Blacking up for beginners The harmless pleasures of byegone days. Posted 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2016-07-08 18:30 Words: 1,666; reading time: 7 minutes Updated on UTC 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 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 on UTC 2016-06-28 10:35 Words: 428; reading time: 1 minute EU Referendum, mopping up First thoughts after the non-deluge. Posted on UTC 2016-06-24 09:58 Words: 646; reading time: 2 minutes Voters Now you see them, now you don't. Posted 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 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 on UTC 2016-06-09 10:12 Words: 1,323; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on UTC 2016-06-24 Ignorant? Uninformed? Thick? We would really like to have your considered opinion on Brexit. Posted on UTC 2016-06-06 09:02 Words: 584; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on UTC 2016-06-09 No X please, you're not British An electoral shambles, just what is needed for a close-run referendum result. Posted on UTC 2016-06-03 09:32 Words: 1,576; reading time: 7 minutes Updated on UTC 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 on UTC 2016-05-10 14:54 Words: 338; reading time: 1 minute The EU referendum to date An incoherent shambles, totally predictable. Posted 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 on UTC 2016-04-14 16:17 Words: 1,771; reading time: 8 minutes Updated on UTC 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 on UTC 2016-03-24 15:17 Words: 3,147; reading time: 14 minutes Updated on UTC 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 on UTC 2016-02-17 15:12 Words: 1,537; reading time: 6 minutes Not like us Our continental friends, God bless them! Posted on UTC 2016-01-25 07:35 Words: 2,821; reading time: 12 minutes Updated on UTC 2016-05-07 Fidei defensor Defender of the faith: The Christmas message of the second in line to the British throne. Posted 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 on UTC 2015-10-13 11:26 Words: 2,320; reading time: 10 minutes Updated on UTC 2016-02-05 Democracy and delegation Quote of the day: Modern democracy and delegation from an Ancient Greek perspective. Posted 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 on UTC 2015-09-15 17:07 Words: 2,084; reading time: 9 minutes
