Social realism

This is exactly what Scotland is like (30 seconds):

Mind the fumes

Photographing Brunel's legacy with an 1850s-style camera (3-minute slideshow).

Jenny lives with Spink and Taylor

(…as in "I'm living with cancer")

Politicians have a new punchbag.

Pitch perfect

Victoria Wood does Brief Encounter (4 minutes):

Five a day

Not a piece of health advice, but the current death rate of British pubs. Fight back with the Axe the Beer Tax campaign.

Name that pup

This diminutive Eighties gel-muffin is a famous fellow these days. But who is he? Answer (if needed) next week.

Completely the same

Announcing the Monty Python YouTube channel (2½ minutes):

Disgraceful

Elitist Obama talks in proper sentences.

He that plays Yorick

A Polish concert pianist achieves his dream.

Uncalled for

Tom Mabe's bravura response to a cold-calling salesman (3½ minutes):

The man who saved a palace

Forty years of hard graft - free of charge for the last twenty.

Hamper of tortures

When Hradyesh Namdeo bought a Royal Enfield Bullet motorbike, his troubles began.

Enjoy Kevin Bacon

…in the privacy of your own home - if you dare (2 minutes):



Hat tip: A Welsh View

Let patriarchal capitalism die

Penny Red glimpses Ginger Spice on the acute anorexia wing.

Renaissance Prince

Bruce Anderson salutes Prince Charles, "much the most important British public intellectual of the present day."

Trust your spellchecker?

More fool you.

One o' the Foightin' O'Bamas

Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys raise a glass to the President-elect's Irish roots (3½ minutes):

What's not to like?

Five minutes from Gabriel Pascal's 1945 version of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra: Pothinus (Francis L Sullivan) warns Caesar (Claude Rains) against Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) who promptly sends Ftatateeta (Flora Robson) to kill him:

C S Lewis was my supervisor

Alastair Fowler's detailed account of an enriching experience.

Handy resource

HasTheLargeHadronColliderDestroyedTheWorldYet.com.

(Hat tip: Screw You Hippy)