Nicholas WhyteThe Emperor Claudius and the eclipse on his 54th birthdayTomorrow marks the 2033rd birthday of the Roman Emperor Claudius, who reigned from AD 41 to AD 54. (The calculation is a bit unfamiliar —…Jul 31Jul 31
Nicholas WhyteNorthern Ireland: The Forgotten ElectionAs pundits speculate wildly about the scale of the coming Labour landslide and Conservative collapse in England, Scotland and Wales next…Jul 2Jul 2
Nicholas WhyteCould the European Parliament elections be more European? Perhaps not.This is a response to How to make the European elections more European, a paper published last week by Sophia Russack and Nicolai von…Jun 1Jun 1
Nicholas WhyteElection 2024: my question to the Belgian political partiesPosted on 20 May 2024May 28May 28
Nicholas WhyteIf the election goes to the House… (2020 edition)Just to remind you, if no presidential candidate gets a majority of votes in the electoral college, the election is decided by the House of…Oct 1, 2020Oct 1, 2020
Nicholas WhyteThe BBC schedule of 26 April 1967Thanks to the BBC making all back issues of the Radio Times available online, you can now see what the Beeb put on air on any day since…Apr 26, 2020Apr 26, 2020
Nicholas WhyteWhy ћ and ħ are different from ℏAs I am sure you are aware,the Serbian letter ћ is different from the Maltese letter ħ. The Serbian ћ is Cyrillic, and its upper case…Dec 29, 2019Dec 29, 2019
Nicholas WhyteThe borders of an enclave, or what the landlord’s daughter told meSo, in the summer of 1986, did I live in Baden? Or in Württemberg?Oct 23, 2019Oct 23, 2019
Nicholas WhyteThe Tiptree/Otherwise Award, Peter Handke’s Nobel, The Sparrow and “Mountain Ways”The Tiptree Award’s name change, the Nobel Prize honours a genocide apologist, and I review a good book and a good short storyOct 18, 2019Oct 18, 2019
Nicholas WhyteCloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales by Greer GilmanLots of people loved Cloud and Ashes; I didn’tOct 11, 2019Oct 11, 2019