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NFL does London, Brian does NFL

By 6000 | 6000 | October 26, 2011

Another great post from my favourite UK blogger Brain Micklethwait: …let me tell you about something else that was happening at the same time as the Conference, just a walk away, in Trafalgar Square. This was the NFL Fan Rally, happening a day ahead of the game between the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay [...]

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Times like these…

By 6000 | 6000 | October 1, 2011

Your Quote of the Day comes from Brian Micklethwait who has a dodgy internet connection: My internet connection is doing weird things, going on and off and on again and off again, for no apparent reason.  I fiddle about with the connections, which sometimes seems to work, but this could be coincidence. All of which is of [...]

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Brahms did not torture and murder cats for sport

By 6000 | 6000 | May 23, 2011

Logging on to teh interwebs for the first time in a few days brought some laughs on an otherwise cold and grey Monday morning, the best of them being this line: Brahms did not torture and murder cats for sport. Wagner, who had musical differences with Brahms, and who was an utter shit, made the story up. [...]

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Sincere signwriting

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2011

More great stuff from my favourite UK blogger, Brian Micklethwait, albeit while wearing his Samizdata trousers and hat. Brian says: That is a sign which I think I would have noticed even if I had not been noticing signs generally at all. It’s as if its creator was, while creating it, thinking and feeling something [...]

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Tower view

By 6000 | 6000 | May 3, 2011

One here for Mr Brian Micklethwait of BrianMicklethwaitDotCom fame who is a big fan of the Strata Tower – or at least a big fan of taking photographs of it (see here, here, here and more recently here). But despite his best efforts, not even Brian has got a pic from this angle (AFAIK, anyway): [...]

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