AdamSmith

Long thoughtful historical retrospective, not a polemic. Well worth the read. Is this the end of Britishness? A shared history of 300 years could be washed away if Scotland votes for independence. What was the complex identity the United Kingdom created and should we mourn its loss? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/-sp-is-this-the-end-of-britishness

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/america-state-secret-privilege-lawsuits

Nice interview. http://m.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/how-stephen-king-teaches-writing/379870/?single_page=true]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11095670/Tranquilisers-Mothers-little-helper-is-no-such-thing.html

Queen decided on Saturday she would step into referendum debate http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/11098151/Queen-decided-on-Saturday-she-would-step-into-referendum-debate.html

Thank you! I confess a great lacuna in hardly having read P.G. at all. One more thing to live for!

Nice choices: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10620356/The-15-best-comedy-books-of-all-time.html Makes me realize I got my forum posting style, such as it is, in great part from Tristram Shandy, probably my favorite novel along with Nabokov's Pale Fire ("lads and youths"! ).

And did you know! https://m.facebook.com/ethyl.merman.9

Great bunch of Ethel Merman stories and quotes: http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=907797#