Philobiblon

* A magical fossil: it makes sense that many land-dwelling dinosaurs would have been able to swim, but how could you conceivably prove it?

Well what you do is find is a “15-metre-long track (49 feet) in sandstone “strongly suggests a floating animal clawing the sediment” as it swam against a current”. Something magical, I think, about the survival of this 125 million-year-old record.

* Matthew Parris, somewhat unexpectedly, on what is wrong with democracy. But as ever, he makes interesting reading…

* Delhi is planning to get rid of the cows, so the cars can go faster. Reference my link yesterday about traffic-calming measures, perhaps we could import them to London? (But very sad for Delhi, if they succeed, which os course they might not, although they did apparently succeed in geting rid of the elephants, unlike Bangkok.)