Monthly Archives: September 2008
The violent Ward
In the bad old days, between visiting the bear-baiting and the ratting pit, a gentleman might while away the idle hour by tripping down to Bedlam and laughing at the lunatics. Today, we live in more enlightened times: we have … Continue reading
The best abdication joke yet?
For those of Malcolm’s generation and of republican sympathies, there is still some mileage in the doings of 1936. For a start, it made Éamon de Valera able to machinate his new Constitution. Now, why should the phrase Kinder, Küche, … Continue reading
Filed under Britain, De Valera, Republicanism, Uncategorized
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
That’s Aristotle, you dullards and philistines. But today we talk mountains. The BBC website has one of those delicious stories that do no greatly matter outside these low-lying northern islands: A Welsh hill has been upgraded to a mountain after … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Neat and tidy. Tidy and neat.
No, not the refrain from one of the “Mister Men” books. It’s Malcolm pick-of-the-day. And today from the Times miscellany page, the Daily Universal Register, an innovation since the last re-vamp, and well worth the effort. A dream house… In … Continue reading
Divided loyalties: being Anglo-Irish
Malcolm has cut many corners over copyright in the two years of his blogging. This one goes further than that, but in a just cause. It is a letter in today’s Irish Times: Irishmen in British uniforms Tom Cooper (September … Continue reading
Filed under Ireland, Irish politics, Irish Times
Wear your Palinista with pride
Repeatedly. as he passed down and back up Las Ramblas, Malcolm was offered all those items without which life is never complete: football shirts for teams he’d never heard of, straw hats, cuddly donkeys, pictorial key-rings, dubious sexual appliances … … Continue reading
Filed under Ireland, US Elections
