Very interesting take on Worldcons and Hugos.

Even the deluded have rights.

Nobody quite seems to remember what happened.

Strangely I appear to be from somewhere near the Gulf Coast.

Hooray!

...and also wake up to Germany's real position.

Very nice video of September's mass demonstration.

Remember the Eurosceptics predicting the army of an EU superstate? Yeah.

@sluggerotoole brainstorms getting in the door.

by @cstross.

In @TheEconomist, of all places.

Americans investigate a British institution.

Courage in the cold.

Mainly (but not entirely) for my Russian speaking friends.

@ianjamesparsley asks the sensible but hard questions.

How and why the Netherlands/Belgium border is being changed.

An extraordinary story. (With a certain Belgian theme.)

The power of social media - lost bears, sacked chefs - by @EyeEdinburgh.

It's time for some old chestnuts...

Industry challenges the securocrats.

What's really going on with Facebook and Twitter.

An update on the UK govt's war on the disabled.

My former boss, Gareth Evans, remembers.

A world in the wrong place!

True story from my old friend @TxTbUk.

A short film about my aunt.

@Matthew_Kilburn writes.

The tarnished heritage of the Golden Age.