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Forgive me, sinner that I am, little father Tsar!
Forgive me, sinner that I am, little father Tsar! We have been ordered, whenever we catch sight of you, to cry out
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Juergen Teller’s 2016 photograph of a spiral metal slide on a building facade
The slide by which Miuccia Prada leaves her office. Photograph by Juergen Teller, 2016
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Prince Charles with a Moustache Is Something New
Books · Society · Humour
Russian poet Andrey Voznesensky in 1977
The idiots should be cleared away twice over: in your country and in mine. Andrei Voznesensky, 1977
Observations · Society · Humour
Rumours that Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son and his likeness to Pierre Trudeau
I recall how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had to deny that he is Fidel Castro's secret son. And "No, Fidel Castro is not my dad" sounded none too convincing against the backdrop not only of their incredible portrait likeness, but also of the biography of
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79-year-old Welsh musician forced to deny rumour that he is Meghan Markle in disguise, who slipped into the coronation incognito
A 79-year-old Welsh musician has had to deny a rumour that he is Meghan Markle in disguise, who slipped into the coronation incognito. But what a likeness!
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
I don't know whom I'm gladder to see, Maggie Smith in a blue hat or Joanna Lumley in a white one
Books · London · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Queen Camilla marks her coronation by placing free books in London's red telephone boxes
Queen Camilla marked the coronation in her own way, placing red telephone boxes stocked with new books across London in the name of her book blog, from which anyone may help themselves. But "Pride and Prejudice" is, of course, a curious choice for Camilla, who has surely never
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What has impressed me most about the coronation so far is the nacho on Karls's head
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Napoleon, speeding across the snowy plains of Poland, wears the face of a man who has just had a terrible row with his parents but must still ride home with them in the same sleigh from the Casa Bonita restaurant
Nature · Ethnography · Humour
The Wolpertinger and Other Fabled European Chimeras Known from Stuffed Specimens in Germany
The little wolpertinger is a folkloric creature of the Alpine forests of Bavaria. This tiny mammal, furnished with horns, wings, claws and webbed feet, belongs to a whole family of European fairy-tale chimeras, which includes the dilldapp, the rauracle, the raselbock, the squonk and the elwedritsch, each assembled from
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