A new mother posts on Ask Metafilter that she worries her newborn baby doesn’t like her (and that she doesn’t like the baby much either). It sparks off a thoughtful and insightful set of responses about post-natal depression (post-partum mood disorder).
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Glaswegian People’s Front
Or is it the People’s Front of Glaswegia? Jilted Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan ‘may form another party’, according to the BBC.
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Am I cystitis or not?
A Welsh-language road sign causes confusion when it suggests that cyclists have a bladder infection.
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Flanders and Flanders
Interesting fact of which I was not aware: Stephanie Flanders (the BBC journalist) is the daughter of Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann fame. Flanders and Swann Online – Lyrics sorted by Title. He died when she was 7.
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The original Crystal Maze
I’m in Paris this evening, and have come home after dinner (I have an early train to Barcelona) to a bizarre but rather engaging French game show on France 2 called Fort Boyard. It’s a puzzles-and-physical-challenges show set in a real Napoleonic fort on a sandbank off the Normandy coast. Top that, Countdown!
It was, apparently, the original for the UK show the Crystal Maze, and I have to say it’s quite a bit better – as is perhaps shown by the fact that this is series 17!
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The happiest place on earth
The BBC reports that Brightonians are th happiest and most positive people in the UK.
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
A famous essay from 1964, here.