Greetings, my friendsYou may from time to time have had occasion to turn to that curious omnium-gatherum of the modern age that goes by the name of Wikipedia – an endeavour, as I understand it, that is the collaborative work of many hands, in which the considered contribution of the greatest acknowledged professional authority in the field may be confounded...

Greetings my friends,You may recall that in a previous intelligence , I had occasion to inform you that the piece of technological wizardry to which, in all humility, I must record that my own name has been given – I speak here of Transcribe Bentham – had been honoured with a somewhat prestigious international award.Earlier this month, a minion was...

Dear Friends,I noted in a previous missive the rhetorical paroxysms which were induced in a leader writer of The Times by the intelligence that the government of this country was intending to make an assessment of national happiness, and to use that assessment as the basis for the evaluation of government policy. We now learn from Ms. Jil Matheson,...

Greetings, my friends -In 1834, two years after losing my capacity for auto-locomotion, my disciple in matters of law reform Lord Brougham (Lord Chancellor in the Whig administration that secured the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832) was the subject of severe criticism in The Times, having for many years had praise heaped upon him by that periodical....

Greetings, my friendsI have written before in this place upon the question of the retention and display of the remains of the long-dead in public institutions: it is a matter in which I naturally take a more than fortuitous interest, and I expressed then some astonishment at the excess of sensibility which has emerged in your world upon this topic in...

Greetings, my friends,Upon a previous occasion, I have discussed an innovation by which manuscripts composed by my hand are being made available through the power of the world wide web. The populace at large are thus able to transcribe my thoughts with the twin purpose of assisting my minions in collating and publishing a new edition of my Collected...