Know your garden bird song

Today's online Guardian contains the best garden bird identification facility I have come across so far.
You simply move the mouse over the small bird pictures and a corresponding bigger picture appears together with the relevant sound.
Excellent!

Duel carriageway

No duels please, it's a spelling error

Lord Healey accepts lifetime achievement

I found reading this profoundly upbeat and positive article rather inspiring, in view of all the recent doom and gloom surrounding politics and politicians.
Incidentally, I also found the recent Desert Island Discs programme with Lord Healey very interesting.

MDÜ Articles

The current issue of the BDÜ magazine "MDÜ" features two articles written by me, a reprint of the "What makes a good agency" article published in the ITI Bulletin earlier this year, and a new article (in German) on Linguee.

The Berlin wall had to fall, but today's world is no fairer

Interesting article by Mikhail Gorbachev in today's Guardian.

Silly freebie requests

Interesting article on "silly freebie requests" at Greenbang.com

Nuclear news (UK/Germany)

This article suggests that the UK new nuclear-build programme is wobbling.

Meanwhile, I suspect public anti-nuclear opinion in Germany is so strong that no-one would seriously suggest a new nuclear-build programme, although following the recent elections the new government, while fundamentally honouring the agreed nuclear exit strategy, is likely to grant extensions to the agreed residual operating times for (at least some of the) existing plants.

The article on p. 3/4 of the current edition of Nuclear Monitor contains more details.