How Indians took to potato May 10, 2008
It is the root of "slovenliness, filth, misery and slavery", fulminated the radical writer William Cobbett, who foresaw it making it easier for landlords to evict the hard working farmer of old because now he would be content to sit at home and pull up potatoes from the ground. But against Cobbett were enthusiasts like Antoine Parmentier, a French pharmacist who saw the potato as the answer to the famines that had devastated his country after several years of grain crop failure in the late 18th... (India Times)
Saving the Subhumans and their sweaty friends Mar 19, 2008
" The librarian even took the wardrobe itself. Some punk material is on display at special collections on the library's seventh floor on the Burnaby campus, as are other items donated last year. These include a book with an original Marc Chagall lithograph; a hymnal published in the Carrier language in 1901; a bound volume of the satirical journal Karagz (Blackeye), published in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman Empire; and, several works by William Cobbett, the popular English journalist and... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The paternal instinct Jun 16, 2007
Two hundred years ago, William Cobbett moved to the country so his children could enjoy a healthy outdoor life and be educated by him at home. But Cobbett still pursued a career, whereas the men I've talked to over the past few weeks - at snatched moments, when their charges were at playschool or asleep - have abandoned their careers, sometimes permanently. (Guardian Unlimited)
- John Harris Feb 10, 2007
in 1977," the late Joe Strummer once snarled. Thirty years on, the surviving members of the punk rock elite have succumbed to a destiny they must have seen coming: being co-opted into the canon and held to be as "classic" as the icons they affected to despise. Now there comes the 30th anniversary of punk's high summer, already celebrated by an educational "1977 punk special" in the NME ("Thirty years on, music still reverberates to the jolt of the year when the Sex Pistols and the Clash declared... (Guardian Unlimited)
