ninme

…And not your kids.

Found in a hilarious Telegraph photo essay on Christmas at the Sydney Zoo.

Categories: Science and Nature

The Times - Medicine without frontiers is arriving Our healthcare masters are right to be frightened of a new EU plan, by Stephen Pollard

But, technicalities aside, we already know what is involved: patients from the EU will be able to choose in which country in Europe they wish to be treated and can then […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Times Online - Queen becomes longest living British monarch

Queen Elizabeth II became the longest living monarch in British history today. AT 1700 GMT today, the Queen, 81, surpassed the 81 years and 243 days of Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother, but there was no special event to commemorate the historic landmark. […]

Categories: History

The Times - Kyoto? Bali? They’re miles from here In the part of Georgia where I live, there is no way Americans will be converted to the green cause, by Carol Sarler

Our busy little port city of Brunswick, including its suburbs and neighbouring islands, holds about 50,000 people. Yet there are no buses; the […]

Categories: Science and Nature

The Times - Windsor change What Castro could still learn from Elizabeth II

…he has now sent a letter, suggesting that he will not be returning to office but will advise the Government as an “elder statesman”. It may be hard to imagine anyone elder than Castro, but a lifetime of fine […]

Categories: Politics

My parents are arriving tomorrow to whisk me off to Canada until the end of the month, and Sunday Peter is being whisked as far as Chicago by the combined efforts of public transport and United Airlines, there to be stranded by weather and airline perfidy probably at least until boxing day. But whether […]

Categories: Wildcard

You know, they get all the most interesting animals, all the baddest creepy-crawlies, their deserts are bigger, their beaches are emptier, and their actresses better paid… Now even their visible mass of condensed water vapour are worth flying halfway across the world for.

Daily Mail - The magnificence of dawn breaking: An amazing picture

A […]

Categories: Science and Nature

Reuters - Jackson and studios agree to make Hobbit films

All these articles are going on about how New Line and Peter Jackson have been at each other over accountancy, but no one’s mentioning that he wanted to do The Hobbit ages ago because whoever held the rights to it didn’t want to let him do […]

Categories: Entertainment

The Sunday Times - King Charles, Mr Fix-it for a broken Britain The Prince of Wales is the man to reinvent the crown by making it the champion of self-help and stepping in where the state refuses to tread, by David Starkey (his Monarchy: The Windsors, will be broadcast on December 26 on Channel 4.)

[…]

Categories: History

The Times - The silence of the self-flatterers How wonderful it would be if the Hollywood writers’s strike meant that the Oscars had to be cancelled, by Chris Ayres

Unless the executives at ABC television manage to pull off a YouTube Oscars — with the skits performed by animated snowmen and toilet-flushing cats — it […]

Categories: Business & Media

Times Online - Paris Weblog - France says adieu to sleeping-car trains

A great railway era ended when France’s legendary Train Bleu pulled into the station at the end of its final journey from Paris to the Riviera yesterday. After 135 years, the French railways have taken their last wagons-lits — sleeping-cars — […]

Categories: History

Ah, the little rituals of a bride before her wedding…

Daily Mail - Why one Muslim girl became a born-again virgin for her wedding night

When Aisha Salim marries her fiance in Pakistan next March, it will be the wedding of her dreams. Wearing a veil and gown, she will be every […]

Categories: People and Current Events

Curtsy: Brett McS.

Categories: War and Peace

NY Daily News - Women more willing to forgive Monica scandal than Judi Giuliani’s trysts

God, poor Judy. He married her, didn’t he? She makes him happy, doesn’t she? Maybe there was actually something worth forgiving in that indiscretion? We’re all supposed to be beetle-browed over Giuliani’s serial love-life, but at least he’s trying to do […]

Categories: Politics

He’s retiring, alas. So some videos, via the Daily Mail.

A couple for the Yorkshiremen among us:

Mohammed Ali (charming as always):

Peter Sellers:

I could watch old Parkinson interviews all day.

Categories: Entertainment