Interesting perspective from @popehat.

@brheading explains why it’s called “Central” when it isn’t.

Fascinating from @PeterMartin_PCM.

Report from Ireland.

This is a lovely article.

10315 days.

That’s as long as it was up, 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 - 5 February 2018.

This does not appear to be satirical.

Recs for CS Lewis, Lord Dunsany and Austen Tappan Wright.

And what is that going to achieve?

Reflection on the Holocaust.

@YoungsRichard is right.

The facts in the case of Ilgar Mammadov.

“mo anam cara” and why you should checknthe translation before you get your tattoo.

Worth browsing around this fascinating site.

Hao Jingfang, interviewed by the BBC.

@Number10gov: “protecting your rights has been my first priority.” Yeah, right.

A glorious piece of analysis.

@TobyMeadows is not @CamestrosF.

Three months on, still sensible commentary from @jonlis1.

by @NeilHimself (Neil Gaiman)

by Karen Joy Fowler.

The deadly opposition to polio immunisation.

Brilliant bit of Brussels history.

Comprehensive update from Bill Hill, doyen of international Moldova commentators.

Stripe has had enough.

The wise Fiona Mullen on economic incentives for a Cyprus deal.

by John Clute.

@jonlis1 on what has (and hasn’t) changed.

Great essay by Ursula Le Guin.