Last 500 mn checkins. Interesting variations - Flanders v Wallonia, north v south Cyprus; Syria a complete blank.

Space game!

"there is one certain way to make life harder for children to acquire Standard English: creating tests that fail them."

Wow.

Too good to be true.

Broken down by age and sex.

"The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology."

Drezner on form.

@markhleonard and @hanskundnani tackle seven myths, more or less convincingly.

Amazing!

A terrifying look at how we are changing the world.

First of three 5 minute shorts about Brussels conferences

News from Jay Lake; not unexpected, but awful.

It's not the despair; it's the hope.

I'll be there; hope you will too.

Now you know.

The view from Costa Rica.

Peter Kellner (Mr Ashton): referendum (if it happens) will pass.

Lisa reflects.

Brilliant but very long: "Do you know what a Blue Letter is? Do you think Focus is a noun? What does the term Shuttleworth mean to you? Have you met Erlend?" Yes, that last one is the real test!

Short answer: no. Longer answer: yeugh, what a revolting and disgusting person.

Appalling - UN offers military protection to local chief, Sudanese militia kill him anyway.

About domestic violence.

*gulp!*

Lots of people do.

Taking the British government's war on the disabled to a new front.

Are Senators sacrosanct?

...and so few in Belgium?