The latest BBRU tersely hosted by Matt Wardman is posted.

Various handy links, including this to the vividly designed Andrew Ian Dodge website which in turn links to a fatuous EU Quiz.

As Andrew points out, the eccentric questions are loaded in a trivially anti-libertarian way. Or is the EU not so trivially actually anti-libertarian? (No need to answer that one). The questions also preclude a huge range of options whiuch would involve plenty of European coordination but done rather via member states’ structures. Sigh.

Back in the real world, see also an unconvincing feminist analysis of Wallace and Gromit. This piece seems to me to take the fact that this W&G film has a fat female baddy as proof of, eeek, stereotyping. But why can not some fat female people be baddies, in movies as in real life? Cruella De Vil was skinny if not emaciated, and smoked (horror) – was that a stereotype or not?

Oh – and a Budget Cockspiracy.