Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The 2013 Senate vote on expanding background checks was 54-46, but Senator Joe Manchin's legislation was filibustered

A movie about an unbelievable true story that I read about as a child: "Operation Mincemeat"

On listening to XTC for several days, but not to one song today

The Bandung Conference and the Sino-Indonesian Dual Nationality Treaty in 1955

"Why will you not speak?": Mourning in Denise Levertov and Denise Riley

My laconic, graceful friend answers the phone and speaks his mother tongue