The Big Read
Between 1-in-4 and 1-in-5 adults in the UK are taking prescribed psychiatric drugs. This is a fact and is in no way meant to “shame”.
Category: Progress hardly broke its stride
A line from a poem by Iain Banks
BUMP-TIOUS SCIENCE
In relation to over-certainty, phrenology, a long abandoned discipline, is a cogent reminder of ‘bumptious’ science. From Julian Barnes, final book ‘DEPARTURE[S]‘:
In a Forsyth Flannel Suit
This short film shares the story of the end of Union Corner, Glasgow. It was once the celebrated Department Store of R. W. Forsyth: To play this short film please … Continue reading In a Forsyth Flannel Suit
Big Ted retires
Craigforth Insurance Campus, Stirling
G A Z I L L I O N
Dictionary definition of Gazillion: A very large (but indefinite) number or quantity (of something): chiefly in plural. The first mention of this colloquial in British newspapers seems to have been … Continue reading G A Z I L L I O N
