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Don’t be a costumed loon — Count Binface, from the Wikimedia Commons It’s trivially easy to stand for Parliament in the UK.

But does it matter?

Over 100 books from the dot-com era looking for an appreciative home Update: these books, plus some others, have now gone, as a donation, to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library at the University of Manchester, where they invented the programma…

…the Crown must act — How to explain the persistence and apparent indestructibility of the British monarchy.

The Internet, which we thought was going to be liberating, turns out to be a tool of control: repressive, coercive and damaging to our most basic freedoms — So it has come to us, in a kind of dissilusioning rush, and much too late really, that the Internet

It’s a review of 2001: A Space Odyssey from my Hollywood history newsletter GROSS, but it’s also an essay about working in space and a comparison with Director Bong’s Mickey 17. — At work We’ll know that the exploitation of space is going to plan when they

The atomic theory in Kilburn — This place (on Kilburn High Road) has been morphing steadily from dry cleaner’s to bike shop over the last few years.

I’m having a bit of a clear-out.

Is the Israeli attack on Iran the first on a country that manufactures electric cars by one that doesn’t?

Public ownership as end-of-life care. — This is a quick note in response to the head-spinning fact that, apparently, both ends of the British Parliamentary political spectrum are now positively disposed to the idea of nationalising British Steel.