With my little ukelele in my hand, I ran along the road to Dr Brand. It didn't take him long to fetch his little bag of tools; I held his hat and coat and let him have my book of rules. Out of the be… (View Post)

A more interesting question, however, is what signs of the Dutch D66 resurgence (or just surgence) did we miss? If we could magically jump back to last week and study the polls and reports as they we… (View Post)

Further to @isam's telly schedule, the BBC's Screen Two section on iplayer includes the following, often relevant to pb:- Screen Two Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talen… (View Post)

Historians smell a rat over beaked plague doctor masks Research in Germany suggests the masks, symbolic of the Black Death, were not worn until hundreds of years after bubonic plague ravaged Eurasia … (View Post)

UK newspaper apologizes for fake De Blasio interview criticizing Mamdani The Times deletes article after its reporter was duped by impostor pretending to be former New York mayor https://www.theguard… (View Post)