Daily Telegraph- Bob Diamond to replace John Varley as Barclays chief executive
- Twitter showdown for England after Kevin Pietersen and Dimitri Mascarenhas are fined
- Prince allows glimpse of life on board the Royal Train as he launches Start initiative
- MI6 spy Gareth Williams murder: police probe poisoning theory
- New powers to block Britons from extradition
- Who are the Republican 'Young Guns'?
- Inventor sets world record for 'fastest piece of furniture'
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Fame, at last
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 [...]
Mine’s a large one
A women walked into a pub and asked the landlord for a double entendre.
So he gave her one.
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Massaro’s, Regent Street, Cambridge
Finding a decent cup of coffee in the centre of Cambridge is not as easy as one would imagine. The Costa fortune-type chains are just that; chain-store ordinariness at a price, complete with the same expensive, ubiquitous brownies, muffins and plastic-wrapped sandwiches that began life who-knows-when in a prefabricated industrial unit just off the A14.
Compare [...]
Reincarnation no. 37
Twenty4ten’s latest reincarnation will take a while to perfect so please be patient. Meanwhile, yesterday’s stolen joke might amuse.
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