• Elections

    Polling Predictions #13

    Well who’d a thunk it. Here we are again and no sign of an election in sight. The pint sized loser must be well frit. In the meantime what with defections (far-right Natalie) and suspensions [more...]
  • 20th Century

    Going-Postal Eurovision Song Contest Special

    Who could have thought in the middle years of the twentieth century that the then-nascent Eurovision Song Contest could, a mere seven decades hence, be described by serious commentators as ‘noncing s***’? Albeit the commentator [more...]
  • Literature

    Postcard from Taiwan

    The Alishan Forest Railway runs from the coastal plain into the heart of Taiwan’s empty highlands. It was built in 1912 by the Japanese for the purpose of transporting timber from the mountains for the [more...]

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