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• Plucky Little Switzerland!

  As Diccon Bewes puts it, neatly, in The Telegraph: Take a look at a map of the European Union and you’ll see a Switzerland-shaped hole at its heart. Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Post-mortem Post-script!

  When I wrote the previous post I still had Mr. Ledwidge's final chapter to read but I was so incensed that I couldn't wait. Even so, despite the red mist which... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Bad News: We Lost; the Good News: We Will Never Fight Again

  I am neither an original nor an analytical thinker - waddya mean you knew already?! However, I do try to keep up with the broad sweep of affairs and as a result... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 10.2.14

  It's been non-stop birthday party time around here. One on Saturday, another on Sunday and yet another on this Wednesday coming. How do I manage the booze?... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Eat Your Heart out Raymond Blanc!

  I'm not one to boast, as you all know well, but it is pretty amazing when you think about me - and when do you not think about me? Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Potemkin Games

  

  This says it all: Ooops! So that's one electrician who'll be off for, er, 're-education'. Well, 'Vlad the Impaler' twitched ever so slightly when he saw the... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which Irish Killers Meet Irish-American Academics and They All End up in an...

  A fascinating if somewhat tangled tale is told at the Chronicle for Higher Education by Beth McMurtrie. It all began as an honourable effort to garner an oral... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Will No One Rid Me of These Termagent Greenies?

  

  In these dire times as floods swamp the south coast, what a comfort it is to know that we have a Non-Environment Agency! We have already learned from the floode... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Right, So It Was All 3 Para's Fault, Then!

  If I was a bit down in the dumps before, what with the fact that it hasn't stopped raining since last October (yes, yes, a sight exaggeration but it feels right! Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Ninjas Begin to Flex Their Samurai Swords!

  Oh God! My titles are becoming even more enigmatic. Let me explain. My trusty, private intelligence service (KGS NightWatch) sent me a report on Japan. Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• From Falstaff to Fort McClellan

  I am provoked to this meander by an article at the News.Yahoo site which informs us that the US army is in the midst of a huge recruiting fraud involving the... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which I Succumb to Latent Masochism

  Yes, sorry about going AWOL yesterday, "Events, dear boy, events". Also, to be honest, for once I really didn't have much to say - so treasure the pause, it... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• What's the Russian for 'clusterfuck'?

  I ask because the Russian-organised Winter Olympics looks like becoming a monumental clusterfuck of epic proportions. According to the WSJ, the two brothers... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 3.2.14

  A group of women were at a seminar on how to live in a loving relationship with your husband. The women were asked, "How many of you love your husband?" All... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Look, I Can Do 'cheerful' Just as Well as 'miserable'!

  

  Notwithstanding my remark to regular commenter, 'Antisthenes', down below somewhere, that "I do the misery round here!", I can also do 'cheerful'. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'My Darling Ann' Gives Me a Cold Shower

  Yes, indeed, MDA (My Darling Ann - Coulter) succeeded where no other lady would ever succeed because being a Grade I wimp I never - ever! - take cold showers. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Coriolanus: Tom Hiddlestone: Dir. Josie Rourke

  So off I tootled yesternight to my local Cineworld, where the price of icecream is close to that of gold, to see a 'simulcast' of the current production of... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• What Do I Know About Land Management?

  

  Somewhere between 0.0 and -10, I reckon, based on my inability to even manage my postage-stamp sized garden. I suspect the 'Memsahib' would put it even lower! Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which My Ego Shrivels

  

  We all have 'egos', as the Freudians insist on calling our sense of self and the will to live. Alas, for some it so very small and fragile that suicide is... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Abc = Bbc - Qed

  

  Yes, indeed, my titles become more and more obscure but stick with it, all will be revealed. I was tickled by the irony of reading a story on the BBC site... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY