A Fist Full of Euros is taking nominations for the Third Satin Pyjamas Awards. Nominate whoever you wish, of course!

The Englishman awakes from a nap to find that the Amazon rainforest is actually fertilized by a valley in Chad.

Now that we’ve finally paid off our WWII debts, Blood and Treasure asks what we spent the money on originally.

Cobbett Rides Again notes that extra tuition for gifted children is being mooted. Are there any other back to the future programmes we could think of?

Division of Labour notes that arrests were being made for ticket scalping a century ago. So banning the practice doesn’t work all that well then.

Michael Bywater makes the slightly alarming comparison of the way in which Jesus was executed with the way Saddam Hussein was.

And finally, Sobering Thoughts points us to John Stewart’s take upon Time’s Man of the Year.

From Adam Smith Institute

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