blessed britons

The foundations for apartheid were laid in the policies outlined by a commission set up in 1905 by the British High Commissioner in South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner. Asked to come up with strategies to deal with the 'Native question', the commission proposed segregation between black and white, and the creation of 'locations'for blacks on the fringes of the cities and the towns.

mad world

GDP can estimate or approximate the money value of the products and services sold in this country during the year, but gives no clue as to the amenity of life or the welfare of the nation. A view of mountains that has given pleasure to generations enters the calculation of GDP only when it is concreted over at such and such a price. The value of silence is recognised only at the point when it is abolished by a new airport runway ... Let us deafen ourselves with new airports, blind ourselves with street light, choke ourselves with traffic, lest the economy suffer!

— James Buchan

... and a prosperous new year?

hoodies

picnic parties at the Taj

Submitted by antarchi on May 14, 2007 - 02:04.

When picnic parties were held in the garden of the Taj, it was not an uncommon thing for the revellers to arm themselves with hammer and chisel, with which they wiled away the afternoon by chipping out fragments of agate and carnelian from the cenotaphs of the Emperor and his lamented Queen.