Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

"Islamic militants are normal people who are often incompetent, not particularly well informed, not particularly well prepared and certainly not the classic vision of the Islamic terrorist"

Centenary of the writer of The Third Policeman

Steve Jones has harsh words for the British Fantasy Awards.

#fb

"Bardem told reporters that France, Spain and the United States were helping Morocco to block efforts to hold a self-determination referendum"

Jo Walton re-reads "A Wizard of Earthsea".

Interesting survey of knowledge production, though I would have some queries about the frame.

More trouble for the UUP, hassling voters who did not vote!

What's wrong with the US. #fb

Useful advice - wait till December!

Interesting analysis in a 2007 study.

State-sanctioned lynching in 1944

The poet Pushkin's African ancestry.

Mail on Sunday lying as usual.

John Quiggin asks why so few bankers have been prosecuted.

"The Comic Strip Companion: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who in Comics 1964 – 1979"

The great Finnish epic.

Fantastic!

Weirdness in Edinburgh libraries.

"I’ve learned that I still love Dune despite everything, and that the alien sex really is the only bit worth remembering from The Gods Themselves."

"Greek default would not be  Armageddon"!