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The Daily (Maybe) (Free subscription) | 13/06/2009
Yorkshire and the Humber next where the BNP had their first MEP of the night elected. Let's see if we can find any positives from the 21 polling districts? I didn't think to do the overall results for the other regions but it's probably useful, so here we see the distribution of votes. Confusingly I've put the right on the left and the left on the right - it's all so confusing these days isn't it!...
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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 16/02/2009
The Lyke-Wake Dirge is arguably among Anon's greatest achievements. This 14th-century funeral-chant originated in Cleveland, North Yorkshire, where it was sung by a woman during the traditional watch (wake) at the side of the corpse (lyke). It's a hard, raw-boned, merciless and beautiful poem. There is nothing elegiac about it, nothing that offers gentle consolation. Impersonally, it outlines a moral...
