A French university brings Stendhal’s manuscripts into the digital age. -IC http://bit.ly/6j34pf RT @bookbench # Tales in a time of turmoil – the Irish Times books of 2009 list http://bit.ly/78l1Wq # Powered by Twitter Tools.
While the barman was ejecting some difficult guests last night someone switched channels on the TV above the bar to a news show. The sound was on. They were talking about Afghanistan. It seems that Barack Obama gave prime minister Donald a bell and Don immediately agreed to send another hundred thousand or half a […]
Damn – would love to see Geoff Dyer and Talvin Singh tomorrow. If you’re in London check it out: http://bit.ly/1tBn3V # How Thomas Hardy Expressed His Doubt – http://bit.ly/8PEmwM # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Newspaper editors everywhere are gnashing their teeth to find that two politicians have been put in charge of being called president and minister (or special envoy or whatever) for foreign affairs of the EU. This Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton – can they even be googled? What’s to cut and paste here? Has either […]
The (TV) media in Poland has been getting very exercised about the A1HN1 flu lately. It’s running wild in Ukraine. The government here hasn’t bought enough vaccination shots. Somebody died in Poznań but we’re not exactly sure of what. The human rights ombudsman is threatening to take the government to court if jabs are not […]
You know you’re getting old when something like this not only fails to move you but leaves you baffled, wondering why on earth anyone would want to subject themselves to it. Today’s Gazeta Wyborcza carries an ad for a night of advertisements in the cinema. That’s right: you go to the cinema and watch ads […]
Chanced upon an interesting review of Anne Enright’s ‘The Gathering’ http://bit.ly/ZyJvW # Hearing good things about David Vann’s ‘Legend of a suicide’ http://bit.ly/215OEP # So it turns out that @wuming6 is not, in fact, Wu Ming – see: http://bit.ly/D7AED Cheeky! RT @VersoBooksUK # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Dublin, Ireland There were violent scenes at Fitzgibbon Street this morning as members of the public forcibly ejected the gardai who had been staging a sit-in occupation in direct contravention of a High Court injunction directing them to vacate the station by 7 am. When the 45 police officers failed to comply a citizen squad […]
Dublin, Ireland Former gardai staging a sit-in occupation at the force’s Fitzgibbon Street station may risk prison after deciding to defy a High Court order to vacate the building. Mr Justice Michael Peart heard the 45 former police officers had been told by their union that they needed to obey the court order to vacate […]