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Dumb boycotts 

Jonathan Freedland argues the case against the proposed boycott of Israeli academics: “If this tactic is aimed at nudging along the cause of peace in the Middle East and justice for the Palestinians, it can only fail.”

Truffling for Michaelangelo 

How did he recognise it as a Michaelangelo? “It was just as I recognize a friend in the street or my wife across the breakfast table,” said Sir Timothy Clifford.

There’ll always be an England 

There are major famines looming in Angola and Zimbabwe, but BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme has found time for the issue really exercising the people of Britain: the fate of the hedgehogs of South Uist. Earlier reports generated a storm of emails from people desperate to give the hedgehogs a home.

There isn’t equivalent humanity expressed on the fate of people who are threatened and displaced. Why do most people care more about other animals than the human animal?

Blogchalk 

First there was warchalking, now there’s blogchalking. My blogchalk, for what it’s worth, is: English, United Kingdom, London, Dulwich, Lance, Male, 41-45. Let’s see if it catches on.

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