Oh dear...

Imagining a better present.

Aliyev's goons in typical form.

Great piece by @CommissionerHR, mentions my ex-colleague Ilgar Mammadov.

Extraordinary piece (from 2007) about an extraordinary operator.

Writng about sex.

Former foreign minister @EspenBarthEide explains.

Jonathan Sacks reflects.

Ouch.

Faha points out that Northern Ireland needn't lose 2 seats.

A pre-election critique of Stephen Harper - from the Right.

@GerryLynch in fine form.

Excellent takedown by @jonworth, applies elsewhere too.

Maybe not.

@jonworth explains.

Headline a little alarmist. But still - Aaargh!

Fashion and medieval geopolitics.

@janezpotocnik22 saw VW scandal coming; others failed to act.

Whew.

Good question - from 2008!

What's really happening.

Best piece I've read on this bizarre event. "These morons in Gowdy's committee were so bent on proving that Hillary is an unfeeling, ambition-crazed schemer bent on riding gleefully to the White House on the corpses of Benghazi victims that they ended up making her look like the one thing she really isn't, at least not very often: a regular person…

Are we all doomed? ("we" = "people in my line of work")

Crumbs.

Hooray!

Righteous disillusion and anger.

"zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt"

Punctuation lore.

Cthulhu fthagn!

Latest analysis from @CER_Grant.