- @arrroberts reviews Agatha Christie’s best-selling novel
"this novel — not to labour the point, but a book *published in 1939* — is precisely about an ingenious though sadistic plot to isolate a number of clever, mostly affluent but *fundamentally wicked* people on an island, and dispose of them. Warning: includes spoilers for several classic Agatha Christie stories
- UK govt “taking action to improve the Work Capability Assessment”
Struggling to pass the buck, on a good day to bury bad news.
- How would you have fared in a Victorian School?
General knowledge quiz from 1894
- Soviet board-games, 1920-1938
featuring such riveting titles as Electrification, Revolution, Reds vs. Whites, and Maneuvers: A Game for Young Pioneers.
- Go home or face arrest: billboard crackdown on illegal immigration
Good God.
- UK’s Balance of Competence Review first 6 documents look broadly sensible
Published on a day when they will be ignored…
- Jahar’s World
The Rolling Stone article about the Boston bomber.
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