Last year an old friend of mine, Tim Coates, launched a campaign to save British public libraries from politically-correct destruction. He was able to produce evidence showing that library expenditure on books was being devastated by explicit or implicit government policy in favour of 'outreach centres' etc. His campaign has not made him popular with government or parts of the library establishment. As part of his campaign he set up a Good Library Blog which I linked to. This blog has now been hijacked by some variety of loonies. Tim is putting it straight and will announce when things are back to normal. But it is really sad that something so self-evidently worthwhile should be attacked for no reason.

Further to my mention of Glyndebourne I tripped over this cartoon.