How about that? I’ve just written about the ambiguous use of the words “ambition” and “ambitious”. And now The Guardian published a short review of the results of a study...
This article on Yahoo! News that I’ve just read credits foreign students with ruining a quintessentially British art of queuing. On the Isle of Wight, it is reported, while the British citizens ...
Looking back at the names of all those great people who have left us this year, including Vonnegut, Pavarotti, Bergman, and Antonioni, 2007 seems to have taken away too much of the incredible talent t...
I have only recently joined BlogCatalog, which the majority of you may already have discovered and exploited ages ago. So far I have been finding a lot of interesting blogs and discussions there. In p...
A year ago Richard Fair wrote this evocative and thought-provoking post “Is it OK to blog while off sick?” Unfortunately, it’s absolutely not OK for me, not even because I’m af...
It could hardly get any better than this – to stumble upon a post about Moscow in 1664 in a blog written by Cardinal Wolsey. The fact that it’s twenty minutes past eleven at night would ma...
The Joy is a short story by a renowned Russian author and playwright, Anton Chekhov. I have long loved it for its satirical look at the individual’s awe of the press. In those days there was no ...
Staying only for half of the day at work on Friday is already enough to put you in the mood for weekend. I was properly in the mood for it on Friday morning, when I discovered that Notebooks – L...
Vladimir Solovyov A Parody on Russian Symbolists mocks an affected, indulgent style of young Symbolist poets and their love for opulent imagery...
My favourite seminar at the Moscow State University was in Modern History, not exactly because I enjoy the time period, but because we had a fantastic tutor who made us read Rousseau, and Montesquieu,...