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Jan 30, 20231 min read
Caption this
Sweden's broadcaster SVT2 and Netflix vie for a spot in the caption competition hall of fame
Aug 13, 20222 min read
Goodbye Salazar
How to avoid telling an ageing dictator that he is no longer in power
Jun 20, 20222 min read
Mr. Biscuit Barrel rolls into Bermondsey*
How the Raving Loony Society and Screaming Lord Sutch kickstarted the proliferation of joke political candidates in the UK
Jun 13, 20222 min read
The Cambridge University Raving Loony Society
The exploits of the Cambridge University Raving Loony Society
May 30, 20222 min read
Who needs a government anyway?
Belgium is setting records for time spent without a central government - and nobody minds
Dec 6, 20211 min read
Fijian independence
The time when Fiji's independence was saved by the meticulous British filing system
Nov 29, 20212 min read
Dante's trials
700 years after his death, Italy's famous writer Dante Alighieri has another busy year
Nov 22, 20212 min read
Flags II
Russia's regions have great flags
Nov 15, 20212 min read
Flags I
Good Flag, Bad Flag - the five timeless principles of flag design
Sep 26, 20212 min read
Having a party
A homage to some of the greatest political parties in history
Sep 19, 20212 min read
Star Wars wars
Star Wars, Muammar Gaddafi, and a Sandcrawler
Aug 8, 20212 min read
Olympic torch hoax
An Olympic torch from underpants soaked in kerosene
Aug 1, 20212 min read
Austrian politics - a soap opera
Subtitles gone wrong create a particularly silly moment in Austrian politics
Jan 31, 20213 min read
The Schleswig-Holstein question
Everything you love about the 19th century: problematic successions, nation states, and Otto von Bismarck
Jan 11, 20212 min read
Canadian heraldry
An excursion into the wondrous world of Canadian heraldry
Jan 4, 20213 min read
Brexit
A celebration of the 2020 Brexit deal
Nov 16, 20202 min read
Fish
Stories of suspicious salmon and fifty Flemish fishermen
Nov 2, 20202 min read
Presidential pets
A brief summary of the most extraordinary pets to inhabit the White House
Oct 25, 20202 min read
Legality of death and reincarnation
How to get permission to die and reincarnate
Oct 18, 20202 min read
Nobel Peace Prize
Making the case for next year's Nobel Peace Prize winners
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