Like planking, Noynoying can be done almost anywhere, but has the advantage of enabling people to do it in any position they like, political activist Vencer Crisostomo told the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper. That could include standing up, sitting down, or even lying on your back. The important thing is that you're doing nothing, Mr. Crisostomo said.

Antimodern romanticism is not primarily a complaint about lost nature; it is mainly a pean to lost values. Modernity is relativistic, the existentialists complain; it has lost a sense of real values, true courage, meaningful integrity.

John Terry and Frank Lampard would not have reacted as the Nigerian did to the (admittedly X-rated) challenge that led to the Liverpool forward being sent off in last week’s Carling Cup quarter-final against Chelsea. All very dangerous, all very uncivil.

Thence home and visited Sir J. Minnes, who continues ill, but is something better, there he told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been, and is, and once at Antwerp was really mad.