Vlad wins by 1,482 to 1, of 1,389 registered voters.

Simon Hix (contra Jack Straw)

Includes War Lord and Solon (but not Eelek, Fenner or Brockley)

The Dylan-Clapton dilemma: "You won a free ticket to see an Eric Clapton concert (which has no resale value). Bob Dylan is performing on the same night and is your next-best alternative activity. Tickets to see Dylan cost $40. On any given day, you would be willing to pay up to $50 to see Dylan. Assume there are no other costs of seeing either per…

The ex-President of the Maldives describes how he was removed from power last month. Dramatic stuff.

I was vaguely wondering what had happened to them.

In his own words.

He wanted his seat to go to a UFO expert.

A sceptic is converted.

Picture is obviously a fake; but is this the fragment under discussion?

A *first* *century* fragment???

"a chamber with the current limited powers, with a predominantly or even entirely elected membership, makes no sense"

Great obituary, with videos. #fb

"A friend who works in intelligence once joked that Stratfor is just The Economist a week later and several hundred times more expensive."

"Amazon is the biggest bully on the block, and is able to dictate its unfair terms to the world, and so I will no longer have anything to do with them if I can possibly help it. "

"When I was nineteen years old, my psychologist told me that I was not a real adult... He also told me that I would never be allowed to make adult decisions."

Text, facsimile, translation, Gillian Anderson podcast (seriously!)

French homework found in Charleroi

"Don't ever rest, not until more than half the UK has better than average broadband speed"!

the grisly fate of Hugh Despenser the younger

Republicans part company with reality

…though today's conference won't do much.

Jon Worth was actually at the meeting and reports on how the other speaker's views were rather better received: "Who, of course, was it that decided on the UK’s closed list election system for the EP? Labour’s 1997 cabinet, of which Straw was a member."

Former European Parliament official hits back: "The record of Mr Straw and his colleagues in office was to campaign halfheartedly at best during European elections"