Ever wondered what the front pages of 100s of newspapers looked like? Wonder no more.

Here’s a link to Nigel Kennedy playing a mean Vivaldi - the first movement to the Winter Concerto. Powerful stuff.

Here’s an interesting take on the West’s perception of Bhutto compared to some of her own countrymen.

How big, for example, is the gap between the Western perception of Hamid Karzai, the well-spoken, well-meaning, liberalizing president of Afghanistan, and the perception of his Afghan countrymen? So far, attention has focused on how Bhutto’s assassination might affect the course of events in Pakistan. My wish, for 2008, is that it not be a harbinger of what is to come elsewhere.

Mr. Richard Caborn (Sheffield, Central) (Lab):

I beg to move,

That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament.

If this kind of link isn’t fit for a site called Allthemorereason, I don’t know what possibly could. It’s an excerpt from a documentary on James Randi, who dedicated his life to discrediting psychics and the like. I particularly love the way the git Uri Geller is completely stuffed on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

 J.S.

This is a hilarious article on Hitchens by Hitchens going to spas and whatnot. There’s one photo of him which is positively shameless!

This guy’s been the bane of our existence in Iraq since day one.

Interesting interview with Hirsi Ali on the French 20 heures this evening. She was accompanied by the French spokeswoman for human rights, whose name escapes me right now.

J.S.

This article describes how, despite having brought in a new law ostensibly to avoid this situation, muslim women in Canada who are veiled are not required to remove the veil when identifying themselves at a voting booth.

Asked if voters could show up with paper bags over their heads, also not mentioned in the act, Mayrand said no.

“There is a point where it touches on the orderly process of the voting,” he said.

Really? I think that this is the exact kind of civil disobedience that should be encouraged in this kind of circumstance.

J.S.

If there was any doubt to the power and majesty of certain poetry, then one need look no further than this gallant paraphrase by Amanda Mabillard of a sonnet by Shakespeare. Here are the last two lines in the original:

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

And here is the paraphrase.

And yet I think my love as rare
As any woman who has been misrepresented by ridiculous comparisons.

J.S.