Fascinating glimpse at inflation over 40 years. H/T @sam_a_voice pic.twitter.com/M0DfR0nL6T

— Mark Sparrow (@MarkGSparrow) March 8, 2014

@MarkGSparrow @gerry_4 this is interesting too x pic.twitter.com/2ZycP1pjjO

— Dr Tig Calvert (@sam_a_voice) March 8, 2014

Certainly have friends in high places today! Windsor Castle no less....

Govt claims 250k fewer people claiming JSA than in 2010. They probably don't want this too widely known: http://t.co/QEdI7vlfKb

Came across this today.. via http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/cornwall/185...

We were honoured by a visit from the notorios author Mark Evans

See his interview http://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/tuesday-talk-budleigh-mu...

The Scent of Lilacs tells the story of Nazi Berlin during the
catastrophic last two weeks in April 1945, when the city was attacked
and occupied by the Red Army.  The terrible reality of the fall of
Berlin is brought to life through the day-to-day personal experiences of
ordinary soldiers and civilians as they struggle to cope

See more from his new book "Scent of Lilacs"

Came across an interesting character today via Twitter https://twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/385373352866906112 and https://gascoigne.eventbrite.com/

George
Gascoigne, one of the often-overlooked generation before Shakespeare,
is remembered in Walthamstow as the town's own Elizabethan poet. He was
also a soldier turned pacifist, a lawyer, a writer of prose fiction
before the time of the novel, a courtier who failed at court despite
being the inventor of the cult of Elizabeth as a demi-goddess married to
her country, a member of a family so dysfunctional that his mother
stole his sheep, and an MP who was drummed out of parliament for being a
"common rhymer and notorious ruffian".

Excellent article

High praise indeed: the inestimable @mollycrabapple seems to have annoyed her Gitmo minders... http://t.co/Jp698uFPOQ

— Clive Stafford Smith (@CliveSSmith) September 12, 2013

Inside a Guantanamo Bay Prison Tour - Molly Crabapple Returns to Guantanamo Bay

By Molly Crabapple

Very interesting article

Homelands: Should nations stay within their historical boundaries? @CharlesCrawford in Aeon today: http://t.co/mjWm0ZqFny

— Aeon Magazine (@aeonmag) September 5, 2013

There are only two questions in politics: who decides? and who decides who decides? Every country solves these questions in its own way, be it through democracy, autocracy or dictatorship. But however it answers, the same dilemma emerges again at a deeper level. Who gets to say what is or is not a country?

Command 135 initiated - http://boingboing.net/2013/08/27/the-most-mysterious-radio-sign.html

— Nick Cotter (@BuckBullet) August 28, 2013

Via Boing Boing

The most mysterious radio signal in the world

Rob Beschizza at 7:55 am Tue, Aug 27, 2013

The most mysterious village in Russia.