Nigeness

I recently finished another William Maxwell - The Folded Leaf, which dates from 1945 (the title comes from an early Tennyson poem quoted as ...

A hundred years ago today, Charles Walcott discovered the astonishing depository of bizarre and exceptionally well preserved fossils known ...

... shouldn't I? The least slighting reference to the eternal verities of the warmist creed and the Anonymouses of this world pitch in, ...

Ah the delicious irony - the Met Office supercomputer, dedicated to mapping global warming, emits 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, m...

Hot on the heels of the death of Ellie Greenwich comes news of the passing of that fine keyboard player Larry Knechtel (who also, among mu...

When I set out for the Surrey hills on the day commemorated in this post , I found myself with a bag quite heavily laden - what with inordin...

I note that on this day in 1896 the shortest war in history was fought, coming in at 38 minutes from start to finish. That's a record u...