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• The Sunday Rumble: 29.6.14

  A Snow job on WWI: 'A snow job' used to mean a PR exercise to cover up some ghastly cock-up but you will note from the capital 'S' in my title that I am... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• One of the Finest Tits in the British Army

  

  I give you . . . Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, aka, General Sir David Richards . . . no, go on, take him . . . he's all yours . . . no charge! Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• More Melancholia on Events 'over There'

  Yes, I know that yesterday's post was on the gloomy side and I'm afraid this follow-up is not going to improve matters. However, I did a dis-service to the... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So What's Happening 'over There' Then?

  I confess, mea culpa, to a certain lack of diligence recently in watching events 'over there'; frankly, I blame an even Greater Power who has seen fit to bless... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• But is He Learning, Think You?

  'Dim Dave' has been four years in the job and it's not unreasonable, as we approach the next election, to ask whether he has learned enough to justify putting... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Beach Reads #2

  Some more recommendations to accompany you as you jet off to the Caribbean, or Mauritius, or perhaps Clacton-on-Sea for your hols! Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Reasons to Be Cheerful" #3

  

  "Free again, Happy, happy me again". Yes, indeed, via the good efforts of a London jury totally unswayed by that mass of hair, gorgeous figure, sexy eyes and... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Reasons to Be Cheerful" #2

  At last Europe is moving in our direction, by which I mean, of course, that it is moving further away and with a bit of luck and a following wind it will... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Reasons to Be Cheerful" #1

  It is now obvious that Greenwar Greenpeace is not only incapable of saving the world, it's incapable of saving itself! Overcome, as I have been, by all this... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies 23.6.14

  Before I depress cheer you up with this week's Funnies, I though you chaps might like to know that I can still pull the birds. No, no, not the double-breasted... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 22.6.14

  Cringing apologies: Blogging, along with almost everything else, has come to a near halt in the last three days as we bravely battle against a blast of 'global... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "We're Havin' a Heatwave"

  Yes, I know, if you live in Oz, or even in Arkansas, you probably just snorted coffee all over your keyboard but here, in what was known back in Jan/Feb/Mar as... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Eh? What? Is This for Real? In London?

  

  Yes, you're right, it's a tank and it's parked close to the centre of London. Even worse, it's a Russian T34. And don't ask me what the guy was on who painted i... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Dom Dominates the News

  No, no, not you, Dom, my regular commenter here at D N; I mean Dominic Cummings, the maverick SpAd who departed from government at the weekend but only after... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Picture Time Again

  

  Gradually, very gradually, I am finding my way around the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing MS 8.1 which now occupies my old computer. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Coming Man, That Cummings, Except That He's Gone Already!

  Come on, you know my post titles are the poor man's Times crossword so award yourself a prize if you can work out what I'm about to bore you with! Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Poof - It Just Vanished - and Stayed Vanished!

  I have avoided speculating on the causes of the disappearance of MH370, the Malaysian Airways passenger jet, not least because my 'hands on' experience of flyin... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 16.6.14

  A lovely sunny morning - well it is here - so you wage-slaves don't really need cheering up but I'm a generous fellow at heart so here are your Monday Funnies... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 15.6.14

  

  Laffer's still laughing: Why are the most brilliant insights often so simple and obvious? According to The Telegraph, it was way back in 1974, when Gerald Ford... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "There is Nothing Like a Dame" - Especially Dame Angelina

  I have been vaguely aware of Dame Angelina Jolie for some time - oh, yes, don't think that just because I'm an old Brit codger I don't keep up with the latest... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY