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• And, Lo, I Bring You Yet More 'Good News'

  Yes, indeed, this continues my new editorial policy of trying to cheer you all up even as, according to the media, we are on the cusp of being blown away by... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Don't Listen to ISIS, Just Listen to Sisi

  I wrote about President al-Sisi of Egypt just a few days ago and now, with immaculate timing, he has re-appeared in the headlines. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Dammit, Sir, It's Bad Form to Mention New Orleans in This Year of All Years!

  After all, this is the year in which we normally reticent Brits can throw our caps in the air and indulge in some of those fist-on-fist bumps and hand-to-hand... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Real Science is Like Checking out the Spiel from a Second-hand Car Trader

  This is a longer than usual post because most of it is a transcript from a book I am reading. Suffice to say that so far it has all the makings of being the bes... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'The Streetwise Professor' Gives a Lesson in Clear Thinking

  The news that the 'Argies' were renting some out-of-date fighter-bombers from Russia broke a few weeks ago - to universal yawns. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• You're Free to Do What We Tell You - Or Else!

  

  I blame post-Christmas and post-New Year lethargy for missing a brilliant article by Alex Massie at The Coffee House which is summed up in this copy of a grossl... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Biggest Poker Game in Town

  In fact, it's the biggest poker game in several towns - Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Rome, Madrid, Paris, to name but a few of the main players. As is common in... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• It Ain't All One Way in the Muslim World

  An interesting article in PJ Media by Roger L. Simon reporting on a speech by Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. In it, he called for a 'religious... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Broadchurch" is BLX!

  

  During 2014 there was only one TV programme on and that was the crime thriller 'Broadchurch'. Well, that was according to the shrieking, exciteable, so-called... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 5.1.15

  Well, my little wage slaves, thus begins your first full week back at the coal face. I hope these cheer you up. This blog prizes itself on its in-depth reportag... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'On Avance, Er, Non, Nous Nous Retirons!'

  Sounds like one of those French generals in 1914 as Schlieffen's right hook punched them backwards. (Incidentally, I imply no criticism, the French fought... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Taboo That Dare Not Speak Its Name

  The other excellent article in my ex-best mate Rupe's newspaper, The Times (see previous post), was by the always intelligent and perceptive Matthew Parris -... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which I Try to Help out My Ex-best Friend, Rupe

  Well, I feel slightly guilty about tossing his Sky TV package out even though he sent me a satellite dish and a do-flicker-recording-thingie 'free of charge'. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Oh No, Just Two Days in and I'm Wrong Already

  On January 1st I gave you - free of charge, on the house, nothing to pay! - my 'Hypocrite of the Year', the despicable Rahm Emanuel who agitates constantly to... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Sex-mad Australia - Who Knew?

  Now I do realise, given the Antipodean readership of this blog, that I'm taking my life in my hands raising one of my supercilious eyebrows in the direction of... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So Old Albert Was Wrong, God Does Play with Dice

  Having rid ourselves of the Language Commissars, the next lot on my list of undesirables are all those Health Commissars who never cease their prating about... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Hollywood, the Trickiest Business in the World

  By and large I am an admirer of those people who run big businesses - and I do mean BIG! For example, I look upon supermarkets as the cathedrals of our age -... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• First, Let's Go for the Language Commissars

  So, you Anglospheroids, feel all superior do you when you read about the likes of North Korea, or Vlad's Russia, or the People's Republic of China. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Fireworks, Folly and Finance

  Am I alone in being slightly nauseated by the crass, extravagant, contemporary versions of the 'bread and circuses' of the old world? Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I Give You - Prize Hypocrite of the Year!

  

  And yes, I know it's only January 1st but this will take some beating when it comes to pure, unadulterated humbuggery of the first order. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY