Michael Bates: August 2009 Archives

Wrong Tomorrow - time vs. pundits

Track pundits' predictions of doom and glory.

Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats: Billy Caskey

A summary of the career of the Tulsa Roughnecks star, who played even more years for Glentoran in his hometown of Belfast.

Rose and Laura Wilder and the Little House stories : The New Yorker

The fascinating story behind the much-loved stories of life on the frontier: Daughter Rose's role in editing mother Laura's stories, and the link to modern Libertarian politics.

1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell | Books | The Observer

"In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It became one of the most significant novels of the 20th century. Here, Robert McCrum tells the compelling story of Orwell's torturous stay on the island where the author, close to death and beset by creative demons, was engaged in a feverish race to finish the book"

Pyromaniacs: Was Spurgeon KJVO?

Charles Spurgeon didn't believe the King James Version to be inerrant. (For that matter, neither did the King James Version's own translators.)