Wittgenstein's hat

It'll never catch on.

Are you Sir Nicholas Serota?

If so, don't visit Stuckism International. (This has been a public safety announcement.)

Bob Hoskins rapping

…or, more precisely, lipsynching to Jamie T's 'Sheila', with its nods to Betjeman and My Fair Lady (4 minutes):

Oldest and best

No one before has brought such star quality to the role of Britain's oldest man: the mighty Henry Allingham hits 112. Some nice extra details here.

No escape

Shaver's Weekly, the self-styled "shoddy drinking fanzine" and long the brightest jewel in Edinburgh's crown, is online too (after a fashion).

Afterwards

The suicide of Christopher Morgan, sometime religious affairs correspondent of the Sunday Times, was followed by the most heartfelt Times obit I've ever seen - and a storm over Andrew Brown's critique of him in the Church Times.

The perfect library

You know you're getting old (or whatever) when your fantasies overlap with those of Paul Johnson.

Looking for truth with a pin

Something only Ivor Cutler would do (2 minutes):

Senior alumna

Glass engraver Alison Geissler, now 101, returns to Edinburgh College of Art for a special exhibition of her work. More here.

Hate your employees?

Now you can keep them jobless for life.

Deep down below

Underground History is an absorbing personal guide to the disused stations on the London Underground - and sundry other nooks and crannies.

Meanwhile…

… the London Tube map inspires a diagram of Oxford's pubs (click to enlarge).

Still in Oxford, prospects have been looking bleak for my beloved old watering hole the Gloucester Arms, though there may yet be hope.

And the pub next door - also a significant place in my life - has, after divers metamorphoses, resumed its original name of the Red Lion. God's in his heaven, etc., etc.

Lesbians!

Bless 'em all, sings Matt Lucas in the grainiest video ever on Webside Gleanings (1 minute):

A shed is a shed is a shed

A masterclass in how to complete a planning form.

The Vicar's a fascist

But was he?

One little room, an Everywhere

From Francis Bacon and Jeffrey Bernard to Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and ever onward, ever downward; how did anyone at the Colony Room Club stay sober long enough to build it a site?

Here is the Olds

Opening credits from BBC TV News (1982 onwards) and ITN (1970s onwards).

Flyboys innit

Armstrong & Miller bring the wartime RAF up to date (six sketches, ten minutes in toto):

The hammer is still

Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh commemorate cherished Glasgow author Jeff Torrington.

Four-letter word

Don't call Scientology a cult, say the City of London Police.