Merry Christmas to all our readers! In lieu of a card, here are some Christmas memories from the Dabbler Editorial staff, plus some lovely music... Gaw - Arguments About War Some of my fondest Christmas memories are of the arguments (and I don’t mean rows). There was a golden period for arguing: two ... Read More...
Dabbler Christmas
Daniel Kalder looks back at the various vernal revolts of 2011 and argues we shouldn't get too excited. Sometime around the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a long period of abject Western media failure regarding the Putin phenomenon began. Journalists were so busy making fatuous comparisons to Stalin or hyping The New ... Read More...
Stop the year! We've just received a last minute entry for our Images of 2011 feature. Rosie Bell: There was so much news this year. You had barely digested one item when another meaty one was put down in front of you. Here’s a picture that for convenience combines two news ... Read More...
We've invited Dabblers to contribute their image of the year. Today, in our second installment, we hear from Brit, Noseybonk, Mahlerman, Jassy Davis and Daniel Kalder. Brit: I've picked this image of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and others watching news from Pakistan of the mission that would kill Osama Bin ... Read More...
We've invited Dabblers to contribute their image of the year. Today we hear from Gaw, Mark Pack and Susan. Gaw: My picture of the year (top) is in memoriam: the cover shot from Christopher Hitchens' recent memoir. A grave-dancer left a comment on the New Yorker's remembrance accusing Hitchens of being full of himself. ... Read More...
Today we present a Dabbler Christmas extravaganza. Later Susan takes us on a 3D Christmas Eve adventure, but first we invited Dabblers to contribute an image of Christmas and here are those of Nige, Skipper, Philip Wilkinson and ZMKC. Nige: Let us define our terms. As the scrupulous Nigel insisted in ... Read More...
In a post that originally kicked off our National Treasures series, Brit looks at an infamous nativity scene... Pieter van Bruegel the Elder is best known for his large, peasant-filled landscapes, so this scene of the Magi offering their gifts to the infant Christ is a rare ‘close-up’. For something painted in ... Read More...
