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It really is about bloody time Jonathan Davies learned how to pronounce Jauzion

Yes I’m watching the rugby again (France v Italy), and okay, you can forgive Jonathan Davies for not knowing everyone in the French team. Nobody does, because it’s now a different French team every time. But Yannick Jauzion has played enough, and been mispronounced often enough by Davies, that by now you’d have thought he’d … Continue reading It really is about bloody time Jonathan Davies learned how to pronounce Jauzion

Hello again

After writing the previous posting here, about how BMNB dot com is now being wound down, from a daily to an occasional blog, I was determined that my next piece of bloggage would be for Samizdata, and it was. It’s a piece about this book by Stephen Davies. It took me a week to get … Continue reading Hello again

Vauxhall views two decades apart

In 2000, I was mostly using my very first digital camera, a Minolta Dimage, to photo people, but I did also photo a few buildings, such as these ones. This is Vauxhall, seen from downstream: And here are the same buildings, with recent additions and subtractions, as best I could find in my more recent … Continue reading Vauxhall views two decades apart

How to win the libertarian argument with hippos

Once again, I am saying a big thank you to Rob Fisher, for doing his bit to make my life and libertarianising echo in eternity. (Commenters, what movie am I quoting there? I liked that phrase the moment I first heard it.) If you go to the website that Rob is referring to, you will … Continue reading How to win the libertarian argument with hippos

Sniffer dogs and beavers – both doing well

Friday, so: animals. Obviously, I noticed this story about dogs with the superpower ability to smell prostate cancer in a blood sample a lot sooner than prostate cancer tends to be noticed now. However, I especially liked this other story – well, a tweet – about beavers, which was accompanied by a map of Europe: … Continue reading Sniffer dogs and beavers – both doing well

Trumpism and the future of the world (and why I hope Trump wins)

Tucker Carlson is one of my favourite political orators just now. Go here, to see and hear him in typically fluent form. Carlson asks and answers the question: Why do Trump’s meetings attract Trump supporters in such vast numbers? To put it another way: If – if – Trump wins re-election, how will that have … Continue reading Trumpism and the future of the world (and why I hope Trump wins)

Will you SURVIVE THE PLAGUE?

I’ve just been meandering through the photo-archives, trying to find out when was my last totally pre-Covid walkabout. Not even any vaguely threatening headlines, just life as we knew it before … it. And it would appear that the last time I was able thus to indulge was on February 5th. I went looking for … Continue reading Will you SURVIVE THE PLAGUE?

Incoming from Amazon

All of these arrived today, from Chateau Samizdata, where nobody cons their way past the front door and nicks stuff: Looking forward to reading this one especially. It has been warmly received. The C.S. Forester one I never knew existed, until Tom Hanks made a movie based on it. I wonder how it’ll compare with … Continue reading Incoming from Amazon

Anton Howes on the Agglomerationists

I tried picking out bits of the recently penned essay by Anton Howes entitled The Agglomerationists, but it contains nothing I am willing to omit. Almost every sentence is something I find myself wanting to think about, out loud, here. Obliged quickly to name a single summary of what this blog of mine is all … Continue reading Anton Howes on the Agglomerationists

Some customer feedback

Recently seen on Facebook, with that little “world” thingy at the top, which (I think) means he doesn’t care who reads it, beyond his circle of Facebook regulars: I have had a problem with the hosting of the domain that my Gmail account is linked to with the result that it couldn’t receive email for … Continue reading Some customer feedback