Wading Through Treacle

From The Times today ( Gang war fear after Romanian sex trafficker Sorin Serbu is killed ): Sorin Serbu - Romanian gangster "Th...

Marx is newly fashionable again, but it's a daunting task to take on the four volumes of Capital . And in most fields you don't retr...

Clare buys faggots this morning at Wells Market Until you have tasted them, you have no idea how delicious this west-country delicacy ...

There's a curious sense of a world marking time . Politics in America, the UK and Europe sounds more than usually confected . Bogus ...

A Culture Orbital "Many years ago, a friend of mine who knows about these sorts of things handed me a book and said “Here, you hav...

From Dr Mark Porter today in The Times  (emphasis added): "The real risk [of cardiac arrest] occurs when you push yourself, as can ha...

Amazon link I should say 784 ab urbe condita : it seems unlikely that Christianity is going to end up on top when the Roman army is dr...

Jordan Ellenberg writes : "You may have noticed that, among the men in your dating pool, the handsome ones tend not to be nice, a...

Where does this quote come from? " The right to buy weapons is the right to be free " The author at Tincknell Country Store ...

Today is pretty much the Russian Revolution centennial. Michael Roberts has a post, " The Russian revolution: some economic notes ...