An Azeri lawyer writes.

March is the cruellest month. Also, December.

Scrap it!

Mike Batt and Bernard Cribbins reminisce.

Millions live in or near Ossulstone, but only a handful have ever heard of it.

"Finding Nemo has killed more small fish than you'd like to believe."

The real rewards of a good deed.

Warning - one of these is *both* an 18th-century Connecticutian *and* a Muppet!

...to one of my reviews.

Slightly more fun than the original programme...

The first of these is the best. (From @paul_cornell)

Charles King (who actually is an expert) writes.

Toby Vogel with the full text.

" this would be magnificent habitation which after all like every thing else in this desolate City is but an half finished Barn"

I am not sure that this is the best argument to make!

Short but incisive analysis.

Hooray!

More from the UK government's war on the poor.

Oh, Vienna!!!

Gabrielle Giffords speaks out.

US now in favour; will France do the right thing?

Rather a non-apology, if you ask me. "If we get something wrong then I'm very happy to say sorry."

Some of these are more helpful, but less entertaining, than others!

Morocco objects to human rights monitoring in the Western Sahara.

To cheer you up.

HuffPo summarises.

A year of shouting back.

Every presidential election in Iran since 1997 ... has produced surprising outcomes. This cannot be said about Azerbaijan...

Our voting machines don't work properly.

Charles Stross on the same lines as the previous link. (Which I chose Monday morning, long before the Boston events.)