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Programming yourself, apparently.

Peter Oborne of @telegraph gets it right. (Really.)

@BrunoBrussels lying again.

"...the speech is either ignorant or disingenuous about the reality of the EU on several counts... Cameron calls for a council of ministers to deal with the Single Market, but ignores the existing Competitiveness Council, which does just this... in terms of flexibility, Britain already has various opt-outs on the euro, border controls, justice, po…

Kind-of, yes, once or twice.

Quote from me at the end!

Mark Leonard: "a miscalculation which will leave everyone frustrated".

Julian Priestley doesn't mince his words.

Wonderful immigration policies which penalise the innocent traveller and encourage criminality.

The 'Thatcherite free-marketeer' Polish foreign minister: "Even your cooking has improved."

Privilege: Some groups of people get bad things other groups of people don’t get.

"This news item contains the words 'Norway', 'goat', 'cheese', and 'fire'." - Dominic Green

Why you should not do a Ph D.

Some of these are hilarious.

Fantastic videos of airguns in the White House.

Baron Hill on Ynys Môn, abandoned since WW2.

Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy

John Crowley speaks out for Joan Aiken's "Wolves of Willoughby Chase", etc.

(Note to self: Americans have a holiday tomorrow.)

...or, How to Make Sure Everyone Has A Good Time.

Re Armstrong: "When he says he's sorry now, how do we know he's not still lying?"

Jeepers. I met him last April, we had a great conversation about Mali.

Another CEPS piece.

Live-tweeting the end of the conflict in 2009

By Michael Emerson.

Good reporting.

I think we all feel like that sometimes.

My grandfather began school at a time when trust was defined by physical locality, and often marked by the boundary of the parish. In the spring of 1879, aged seven, he was part of the first generation of Irish kids to attend national school in Fanad, Co Donegal. It was his first lengthy engagement with the English language; and it’s likely that t…

"Better together? Yes, certainly, but better independent and free together."