Photograph of the Day – Early morning catch
Tags: Dew, Early morning catch, Photograph of the Day, POTD, Spiders Web
Topic: Society and Culture
Region: Northern Ireland
Topic: Society and Culture
Region: Northern Ireland
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Books
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Belfast port celebrated as hopes rise for lower corporation tax
The House of Lords was the suitably grand venue for the London launch of Alf McCreary’s magnificently illustrated tome Titanic Port, a history of Belfast Harbour. Before I got a chance to take a good look at my copy, my ears pricked up when the chairman of the harbour commissioners Len O’Hagan said hopes were high [...] read our review » -
“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review » -
Spare us a phoney row about racism, we’ve got enough on
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »
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Unrelated Moochin, but I saw the cover to this weeks Time magazine and was struck by how, every once in a while, the photo journalists can produce a defining image that just blows anything their prosaic colleagues can do out of the water.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20100809,00.html
The most moving but also very disturbing photo i recall was of a starving child squating with a buzzard/vulture stood over it waiting for the child to die. Thank you Moochin for this little moment of peace.