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• So, Vlad, It's Rook to k6, Check - Your Move!

  

  Oh dear, just when 'Vlad the Impaler' thought he had it in the bag, up pop those scruffy oiks and spoil the game! His favourite pawn turns out to be a 'prawn'... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Man, Oh, Mann, It's Gittin' Real Down 'n' Dirty!

  How's my accent coming along? I spend so much time writing scribbling on American matters I like to try it out from time to time just in case I ever decide to... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Warp and Woof of 'The Speccie'

  Look, I'm not a professional writer - well, who the hell would pay me? Probably only Mr. Magoo and he walked in front of a bus years ago! Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• This Truly is a Monument to Mankind

  Oh, yes, this will stand alonside the Aeneid, the collected works of Shakespeare and, er, well, this blog - why not? - as a monument to Mankind. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Why Can't We Just Mind Our Own Damn Business?

  Slumped in my armchair I have been watching the 'goings on' in Kiev through beady and, yes, probably bloodshot, too, eyes. My knowledge of the Ukraine is roughl... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The New Olympic Sport - Whipping Pussies!

  

  As we all know our TV screens are filled constantly with appalling sights of mass cruelty and violence and, to be frank, one becomes inured to it almost to the... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Dr. North Turns to Surgery

  

  And I am delighted to tell you that his first deep incision was on the living carcass of 'little Georgie Moonbat' who, in The Graun, accuses the farmers (in... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• We Need Poirot, Well, He's Belgian, Isn't He?

  And we need a Belgian detective to explain some strange goings-on with recent sales and purchases of US Treasury paper, or IOUs, if you prefer. The gloomy but... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• An Historical Exercise!

  Yes, indeed, another post on the subject of historians following my report from the frontline on the war between German historians. Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Juxtaposing Drudge!

  

  In my search for ever more enigmatic titles, the one above isn't bad! I confess that when I open up my computer every morning one of the first sites I visit is... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Great MacBluster Blusters!

  

  I listened, God help me, to bits and pieces of Alex MacBluster, the First Prat of Scotland, on Sky News today. If anything, he reminded me of 'SoD' when he was ... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• War is Hell but War Between Historians is Unmitigated Ferocity

  Yes, indeed, we're back to that old subject 'war' and it's the Germans who started it - natch! Well, to be fair, it is the German wars, One and Two, over which... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• On a Cold, Wet, Monday Morning What Else to Talk About But, Er, Oral Sex

  Now look here, really and truly and honestly, I was intending to write a deeply serious post based on an expert report by Andrew Critchlow in The Telegraph on... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 17.2.14

  Yes, yes, you might have to make a 20 mile detour to avoid the floods but you can never do enough for a good boss so get going! Hopefully these will cheer you u... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 16.2.14

  Did Monty Python invent the Winter Olympics? I ask because there is more than just a hint of 'the Ministry of Silly Walks' in some of the competitions going on... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'Vlad the Impaler' Isn't Fooling Everyone

  Least of all, Walter Russell Meade in today's WSJ. Yes, he admires Vlad's statecraft and his determined pursuit of perceived Russian national interests but... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'Don't Panic, Capt. Cameron!'

  I paraphrase Cpl. Jones' famous advice to his less-than-glorious leader in Dad's Army, although I suppose better advice would be 'DO panic, Capt. Cameron'! Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Well, Chaps, Would You?

  

  Look, don't blame me, it was those rascals at I Hate The Media who ran the story and according to them all of these ladies have been arrested for physically... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I Know, I Know, It's Nearly Three Years Away but Still ...

  I refer of course to the US presidential election in 2016 but it's not just me who is already discussing 'ifs, buts and maybes'. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Oh! Ye'll Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low Road"

  As I write, George Osborne is re-enforcing, in what sounds like very plain language, what the governor of the Bank of England said in very neutral language two... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY