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Jan 30, 20231 min read
Caption this
Sweden's broadcaster SVT2 and Netflix vie for a spot in the caption competition hall of fame


Aug 13, 20222 min read
Goodbye Salazar
How to avoid telling an ageing dictator that he is no longer in power


Jun 20, 20222 min read
Mr. Biscuit Barrel rolls into Bermondsey*
How the Raving Loony Society and Screaming Lord Sutch kickstarted the proliferation of joke political candidates in the UK

Jun 13, 20222 min read
The Cambridge University Raving Loony Society
The exploits of the Cambridge University Raving Loony Society

May 30, 20222 min read
Who needs a government anyway?
Belgium is setting records for time spent without a central government - and nobody minds


Dec 6, 20211 min read
Fijian independence
The time when Fiji's independence was saved by the meticulous British filing system


Nov 29, 20212 min read
Dante's trials
700 years after his death, Italy's famous writer Dante Alighieri has another busy year

Nov 22, 20212 min read
Flags II
Russia's regions have great flags

Nov 15, 20212 min read
Flags I
Good Flag, Bad Flag - the five timeless principles of flag design

Sep 26, 20212 min read
Having a party
A homage to some of the greatest political parties in history


Sep 19, 20212 min read
Star Wars wars
Star Wars, Muammar Gaddafi, and a Sandcrawler


Aug 8, 20212 min read
Olympic torch hoax
An Olympic torch from underpants soaked in kerosene

Aug 1, 20212 min read
Austrian politics - a soap opera
Subtitles gone wrong create a particularly silly moment in Austrian politics


Jan 31, 20213 min read
The Schleswig-Holstein question
Everything you love about the 19th century: problematic successions, nation states, and Otto von Bismarck

Jan 11, 20212 min read
Canadian heraldry
An excursion into the wondrous world of Canadian heraldry

Jan 4, 20213 min read
Brexit
A celebration of the 2020 Brexit deal


Nov 16, 20202 min read
Fish
Stories of suspicious salmon and fifty Flemish fishermen

Nov 2, 20202 min read
Presidential pets
A brief summary of the most extraordinary pets to inhabit the White House


Oct 25, 20202 min read
Legality of death and reincarnation
How to get permission to die and reincarnate

Oct 18, 20202 min read
Nobel Peace Prize
Making the case for next year's Nobel Peace Prize winners
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