NB! · Humour

Life never quite went the lad's way, even from the start

Black-and-white photograph of a little girl in a quilted fringed jacket looking at the camera, with a puppy in the hood on her back.

NB! · Archive · Nature · Ethnography

A Little Inuit Girl with a Puppy in Her Hood, Photographed in 1949

A little Inuit girl and her puppy. 1949

NB! · Books · Observations · Society

A fine time it was, when "Russians" was written with a capital letter

NB! · Architecture

A spiral staircase in Genoa by the architect Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca, twentieth century

NB! · Archive · People

Russian President Boris Yeltsin Playing Tennis, 1992

NB! · Monarchies · Humour

But Prince Philip understood it all long ago

NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour

Russell Crowe Is Coming to Find Out What on Earth Is Going On Here

NB! · Faith · Observations · Rome · Humour

Another Circus in the Vatican

Another circus in the Vatican. Nothing new.

NB! · Observations · Paris · Humour

As the French actor Ivan Odouard put it, no opinion polls this week: let us try to guess our own true intentions unaided

Cartoon of a bearded man with an angry expression lying in bed under a blanket.

NB! · Observations · Society · Humour

Complaint about prolonged days off and their effect on business activity

Good Lord, it turns out today is still a day off. How much longer? Can anyone explain why there are so many non-working days? It literally paralyses every form of business activity; surely people have rested enough by now?

NB! · Faith · Moscow

Christmas in Moscow

NB! · Faith · Observations