Category Archives: Politics

Fame, at last

By William | Published: 24 July, 2009
Is Shakespeare proscribed reading in schools yet? I’ve long giving up trying to keep track. I still hope that, one day, Enid Blyton will give as much pleasure to others as it did to me. Daniel Hannan evocatively quotes the bard in his article about the University of Reading’s Medieval Soldier Database, which makes available the [...]
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Brown resigns

By William | Published: 19 July, 2009
At last Gordon Brown decided to throw the towel in and resign. His cabinet colleagues decided it would be a worthy gesture to name a railway locomotive after him. A senior 'Sir Humphrey' went from Whitehall to the National Railway Museum at York, to investigate the possibilities.
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