Daily Archives: November 5, 2013


Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 5 November 2013 One of the most incongruous images present in Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Stalin: In the Court of the Red Tsar is Josef Stalin as a DJ. The Soviet dictator loved to put music on for his guests and “presided over the American gramophone … putting his favourite records on”. Green Lanes was, for much of its history, a drovers’ road […]