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Monday 24 March, 2025

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Published: March 24, 2025 00:50

Inhumanity in numbers This striking table greets one at the entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Rise Up exhibition which explores the battle to abolish the British slave trade and end enslavement between 1750 and 1850, as well as the aftermath, … Continue…

Friday 21 March, 2025

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Published: March 21, 2025 00:29

Caveat bicyclist Translation (from Latin): TWO WHEELS LEFT HERE WILL PERISH Not sure about the Greek. Only in Cambridge could you see a notice like this to deter cyclists from locking their bikes to a railing. (I wonder if there … Continue reading →

Wednesday 19 March, 2025

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Published: March 19, 2025 00:30

Building for Global Britain Can this really be the site office for one of the incessant central Cambridge construction projects? Quote of the Day ”Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot … Continue reading →

Monday 17 March, 2025

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Published: March 17, 2025 00:56

Letting sleeping cats lie The view from the front garden of the Fitzwilliam museum on Friday afternoon. Note the snoozing lions on the left. Quote of the Day ”The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.” Ambrose … Continue reading →

Friday 14 March, 2025

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Published: March 14, 2025 00:28

Das Boot We often go walking on the North Norfolk coast, and this abandoned boat used to be a landmark on one of our favourite paths. It was fascinating and somehow graceful in its slow decay — and irresistible for … Continue reading →

Wednesday 12 March, 2025

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Published: March 12, 2025 00:20

Vive la France! Provence, July 2024. Quote of the Day ”Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a … Continue reading →

Monday 10 March, 2025

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Published: March 10, 2025 00:48

Snake in the grass? Which British populist politician does this image bring to mind? Quote of the Day On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White … Continue reading →

Skype got shouted down by Teams. But it gave us free telephony

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Published: March 9, 2025 00:01

Today’s Observer column The design of Arpanet’s successor, the internet we use today, started in the early 1970s and it was first switched on in January 1983. The designers of the network were, from the outset, determined to avoid the … Continue reading →

Friday 7 March, 2025

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Published: March 7, 2025 00:26

Faces Teenagers outside the National Portrait Gallery. Quote of the Day ”They tried to bury me, but they didn’t know I was a seed.” Sinéad O’Connor Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Willie Nelson & Sinéad O’Connor | Don’t … Continue reading →

Wednesday 5 March, 2025

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Published: March 5, 2025 00:50

Spring is sprung In a college garden on Monday evening. Quote of the Day “Faced with the bewilderment of my countrymen, by the disintegration of a government in thrall to the enemy, by the fact that the institutions of my … Continue reading →