That's when he talked about it, looking back: not when it began. "Many years ago now I coined a word, "lagershed", on a blog I visit called Politialbetting.com. The word is based … (View Post)

Didn't know whether to believe re the Lagershed, so checked: and we have a perpetrator and date: it is now in UD but not (and I checked this too) OED. https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/260… (View Post)

There's a nice passage in Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential of him and a friend just going to a small street place, near the fish market in Tokyo IIRC, and asking for whatever they want to co… (View Post)

It's a reference to the general perception of the role of classics in schools - both of self - as you so beautifully demonstrate of yourself - and more widely in the business and political world… (View Post)

Plenty of restitution going on already, so if the government were seriously worried, it'd have stopped it long ago. It's particularly the large national museums, with special legislation, t… (View Post)