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• 'Vlad the Impaler's Lance Begins to Wobble

  Yesterday I was trying to work out my reaction to Vlad's latest speech which seems to have had scant coverage in our media. I had more or less come to a... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Congratulations, America but Verdict on Britain is 'could Do Better'!

  My title, of course, comes with an IRONY ALERT! I have had six goes at typing $18 trillion but after the first seven noughts I get confused and then my... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• And Lo, I Come up Smelling of Roses

  

  Now look here, chaps, I'm not going to allow any more of that knee-jerk, Anglosphere, anti-French prejudice! Not everything the French do is bad; yes, I grant... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Irish Blues

  Grim and depressing though it is, I have been reading Ruth Dudley Edwards fairly regularly since (to use a typical piece of 'Oirish' mendacity) 'the troubles'... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Pair of Right Royal Princes

  This reproduction lark is quite amazing. No matter how carefully various 'elders and betters' try to arrange matters the result is the equivalent of throwing a... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• An Appalling Oversight by the BBC!

  It's an absolute disgrace! Desert Island Discs has been running since around 1784, give or take the odd century, and literally thousands of 'slebs' have been... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So Maybe the Saudis Will Blink First

  A few posts back I pointed to the geo-strategic poker match being played by the Saudis and the Americans. The price of oil has dropped hugely, mostly as a resul... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• My Monday Funnies: 1.12.14

  And first of all - 'Pinch, punch, first day of the month, no returns, white rabbit'! For the first time in decades I actually beat the Memsahib to it this... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Big Screen Shrinks and the Small Screen Expands

  In any play or film or TV series there is one man, or very occasionally, I suppose, a woman, who stands taller than all the stars, the directors, the moguls... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Oh No, Don't Say 'They 'r' Us'!

  I am nudged into this post by my e-pal, Michael, who in a comment to the post below vehemently disagrees with my suggestion that, in effect, politicians are us. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'F...ing Little Shit, Turns out to Be a F...ing Little Pleb!

  And so we bid farewell to the utterly obnoxious Andrew Mitchell MP. Whether or not he did call 'PC Plod' "a fucking pleb" I do not know but I will rely on the... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Uncle Sam's Trousers Hit the Floor Faster Than the Oil Price Drop!

  And it was those sneaky Arabs who snipped his braces and left him with his trousers round his ankles. Alas, his embarrassment has not be assuaged by the sight o... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Dave Absolutely, Definitely Promises, Er, Something!

  Well, it's no good me scribbling about American matters, all my American pals are lying in bed today groaning with a combination of hangovers and over-eating... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Oh No, Say It Ain't So!

  Not much time this morning except to sound the alarm bells. This is the headline in The Telegraph: Deadly heatwaves 'could kill thousands' Scientists say Britai... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Obama's Big Fail

  None of us quite knew what we were getting when Barack Obama first became president but now we have a rough idea. I try not to criticise his foreign policy... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Just Gimme the Facts . . ."

  Facts? Are you crazy? Nobody wants those pernicious, awkward, irritating, pesky, damn things that always ruin a good story! But, alas for the American media,... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So Now Will Netanyahu Act?

  

  Yet more larceny on my part as I shamelessly steal this witty cartoon which illustrates a bitter article by Roger L. Simon at PJMedia. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 24.11.14

  Before I ruin your week, ooops, sorry, I mean cheer you up on a miserable Monday, I thought you would like to know that what passes for 'normal service', here a... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Further London Meditations

  

  Yes, yes, you demand to know, we all realise you 'troughed it' at The Dorchester, but how was the Rembrandt exhibition? Alas, I have to tell you that it was... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Sorry, 'Kippers', Not Good Enough!

  Now then, you 'Kippers', I did make myself perfectly clear in my pre-by-election orders that you were to achieve a minimum 8% lead over the Tories at Rochester ... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY