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Authoritarian sheep killers

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It’s quite odd what you can find when looking for something else, such as a site which sells sheepskin parchment and happens to mention: “It is a legal requirement that all Acts of Parliament are still recorded on this material.“ Which seemed unlikely to me what with this being the twentfirst century and all, so I did a bit of searching, and what do you know it’s true: “Today these parchment rolls, with the more modern Acts of Parliament printed on parchment too, are kept by the Parliamentary Archives in the Victoria Tower of the Palace of Westminster.“ Now at … Continue reading →

Monday morning papers

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Having foolishly made the mistake of reading the metro today, there were a few articles that tie in rather too well with my last post. There’s a half page article about Megan Ward who’s invented a “smoking kills” key ring which is being ordered by “anti-smoking consultancy”* GASP, and she’s also produced possibly more useful strong sun indicators. In smaller news the Scots it seems are drinking a shocking one and a half pints a day (Of course these numbers will get increasingly inaccurate as people home brew or buy abroad) . The really impressive article though is the call … Continue reading →

The new puritanism

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I’ve been meaning to write this for quite a while and never quite getting round to it, but the recent post over at Devils Kitchen has prompted to actually do something. If you read Devils Kitchen and Leg Iron already you can probably just skip this as I’m not going to say anything new and will be linking to them extensively, as I’m just trying to pull a load of stuff together for my own benefit. This thread goes back quite a long way especially over on Leg Irons, who seems to have predicted events rather well – though we’ve … Continue reading →