Category Archives: maunderings

From Sumeria.

Some people might say this is an unprovoked assault on an old man. Other people might say that when you enter public life, you give up your right not to be hit in the face with a custard pie.

Now, the TUC and Unite Against Fascism are planning a countermarch against the EDF. I don’t mean the EDF, they’re an electricity company. Anyway, I was wondering whether a more effective countermarch to neo-Nazis might not be a Sealed Knot-style … Continue reading →

?If a lion could speak, we would be unable to understand him. ?Even though many of us speak Sinhala?

If you had asked me before yesterday, I’d have said that the ending -herd, as in shepherd or goatherd, was no longer productive in English. But today I see that a Girl Aloud wrote “BOTHERD!” on an item of clothing. … Continue reading →

See here (Giles Fraser spoils perfectly reasonable book review with weird rightwing digression at the beginning in which he misunderstands his native language and tries to make a point about relativism). When his daughter says “It’s, like, raining” she is … Continue reading →

I see the visual identity for the 2011 census is an origami bus with octagonal wheels.