That’s More Like It
March 16th, 2005On the BBC page tracking the Budget as it happens, they had this, just before lunchtime:
Archive for March, 2005
Catching Up
March 16th, 2005Apologies for the lack of posting over the last few days, including missing out on such important Dead Socialists such as Alexandra Kollontai, Karl Marx and Nikolai Bukharin (links to last year’s entries).
(In my absence, PooterGeek has discovered a new variety of dead socialist watch.)
Dead Socialist Watch, #144
March 5th, 2005Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer of, among many others, the Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Peter and the Wolf and the opera of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Born 23 April 18991 1891 [whoops, Ed.], died 5 March 1953.
DSW, #77
March 5th, 2005Josef Stalin, born 21 December 1879, died 5 March 1953.
New Googlebomb
March 4th, 2005Mark Steyn. [via.]
Teenage Girls in School Uniforms
March 4th, 2005I’m not usually one to comment on teenage girls’ fashion matters, but having greatly enjoyed yesterday’s Daily Mail (“legal aid… lottery money… lawyers high on the hog… judges bereft of common sense… driven a coach and horses through school uniform rules… Cherie Blair… human rights… political correctness gone mad…” et cetera ad nauseam), it seems to me that this is a great victory for stylish dressing: Ms Begum’s outfit in the photos yesterday was quite fine, and the approved Islamic girls’ uniform at Denbigh High School was grim.
I’m not sure that the relevant photos are online. If any regular reader of the Virtual Stoa does, however, spend their days trawling the web for images of girls in school uniforms and finds the right pics, though, do let me know.
UPDATE [6.40pm]: Here‘s one of them.
Filial Pride
March 4th, 2005I’m delighted to report that a certain close relative has become the subject of the most recent piece of frothiness from the incomparable Melanie Phillips: Dhimmi Judges or Just Dim? Read it, and enjoy.
