Quite like the new font that has been “cut” for the Times headlines. As the paper has gone compact, it needs a more compact font for headlines to get all the words in. Don’t like the sans font that is sprinkled through the paper looking like confetti dropped by a Guardian reader. How quaint of…

Like Fr Gadgetvicar, I’ve been following the story of the alleged banning of a group of Evangelical students from the University of Edinburgh. It has been widely reported – there is a variation on the story here. The Lawyers Christian Fellowship has done very well at portraying the story as a freedom of speech issue…

All right, all right, I’m back already. [Well, back to work tomorrow]. And with this little gem – an online demonstration of the physics of the Botafumeiro, the enormous thurible swung in Santiago de Compostela.

Today was my day off. This has comprised of the following elements: Welcoming the heating engineers who came to give the boiler its annual service and to leave me a trophy – the Dirtiest Red Sweater in the Second City of Empire. Using the rest of the morning hours to persuade myself that going out…