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 | USA | Website | WW1 | WW2 49 articles in category 'US'. Scrapbook for April Website changes | Trump's erection by the sea | USA v. Iran in 42 seconds | Why I could never be a police call handler Posted on UTC 2026-04-01 02:01 Words: 631; reading time: 2 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2020-04-28 10:44 Words: 989; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on UTC 2020-04-30 The Trump insight COVID-19: the cure must not be worse than the disease. Posted 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2018-02-08 13:01 Words: 580; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on UTC 2018-02-25 Watergate through the looking glass No smoking gun but a lot of mirrors. Posted 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 on UTC 2018-02-02 22:19 Words: 4,993; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on UTC 2018-02-07 Hotting things up in the USA A guide to making measurements fit the theory. Posted 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 on UTC 2016-10-20 10:52 Words: 1,149; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on UTC 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 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 on UTC 2016-05-01 07:47 Words: 2,026; reading time: 9 minutes
