Bright Northern Lights in Tallinn tonight. (View Post)

Polish GDP is half as big again as Sweden's... No plans to get rid of the Zloty. (View Post)

I stopped reading the HP books after about the third one, because by that time Jo Rowling was allowed to more or less dispense with any kind of editor and the books were turning into overblown bricks… (View Post)

Especially when you make it up and include gratuitous, faintly repulsive and totally inaccurate sexual titbits. A petard was a small bomb, and that is precisely what your spoofistic lieola deserves. (View Post)

I have been a subscriber the The Economist for decades, but increasingly it is becoming unreadable. They used to be generally astute, now they are not even as astute as other media outlets. When they… (View Post)