Some links which may be of interest

...and which some of you will doubtless have seen elsewhere, so apologies for the repetition.

The stuck society

Bagehot in The Economist writes "A supply of people able to work for less than their cost of living gives parsimonious firms a convenient pool of temporary workers. This is how two-tier labour markets, with a group of insiders enjoying job protection and a group of outsiders with none, are born. Undoing the situation can be impossible." Many of us know this from personal experience.

Latest chapter added to the story of St Boswells book store success

The Southern Reporter on an expanding bookshop (and more) in St Boswells, Roxburghshire, much resorted to by members of my family.

US newspaper warns of impending doom

Deaths are coming!

Radio Times digitization completed

The sale of Radio Times to the Immediate Media Company in 2011, without BBC Worldwide even retaining ownership of the brand, might add an additional complication to the distribution of the information retrieved by this project.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography podcasts

The latest release is Andy Sawyer's article on Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

Belvoir Castle's Protestant Cheese

A Cheshire cheese from 1825, which its recipient - Prince Frederick, duke of York, brother of George IV - passed on to Mary Isabella, dowager duchess of Rutland.