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• Your Monday Funnies: 20.1.14

  The chairman of the board is pleased to announce that 'Monday Funnies inc.' has now gone global with material sourced (or should that be sauced?) from... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 19.1.14

  Now I know I am right: If I had any doubts at all concerning my conviction that we should leave the EU as soon as possible then this headline from 'The Graun'... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'E's Not All Bad, That Bernie Ecclestone

  

  Instead of reading this rubbish you would do much better to read Matthew Norman's witty summary of the rise and rise and just possibly the fall of Bernie... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Lynch-mob Rules in the 'il-Lib-non-Dems'

  

  Sorry to return to this tedious subject but I am somewhat taken aback by something I thought impossible, that is, an increase in my detestation of the... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• My Fellow Republicans, This is Why You Must NOT Pick Christie!

  (I hasten to add, Your Majesty, because I know you frequently read these distininguished columns, that the opening phrase in my title above is merely a play on... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'Keynesians' Might Approve of Theft So I'll Do Some Thieving!

  Of course, regular old lags at this site will know of my propensity for wholesale larceny whenever I spot anything worthwhile on another site which I do... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I Don't Blame George Osborne, I Blame You - Yes, You!

  Even the very notion of a government mandated minimum wage is nonsense but for a Chancellor to decide to raise it at a time when the economy is in dire straight... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Anyone for Some Humbuggery?

  Please do help yourselves because Guido has been kind enough - what would we do without him? - to provide an enormous dollop of steaming humbuggery in the form... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'Whodathunkit'? Well, Everyone, Really!

  Not too much time this morning because I'm off to visit an old friend in hospital. However, the Daily Mail has the least surprising headline I have read in... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• “What Difference, at This Point, Does It Make?”

  Thus spat 'HillBilly' with poisonous contempt whilst being questioned by a Congressional committee on the ins and outs of the Benghazi atrocity which saw four... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Extreme Art Meets Extreme War - and Wins!

  

  A very tiny part of me wishes I had been there but the cowardly majority of me thanks the gods that I was not! It was a moment when extreme art met, well,... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "The King is Dead, Long Live the King!"

  That, of course, is the ancient and traditional proclamation made on the death of one king and the ascension to the throne of another. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• What a Pathetic Bunch of Dutiful Poodles!

  On and off yesterday, but mostly off, I half-watched the President of France dodge the softest, easiest press love-in I have ever seen. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'Rats, Lice and Cataclysm'

  Wearing my full bio-chem protection gear I gingerly stepped back into Hans Zinsser's classic "Rats, Lice and History". I began it some time ago but was... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The 'Gatesgate' Affair

  Whatever else he is or is not, Mr. Bob Gates, formerly American Secretary of Defence, is no gentleman. He pursued his career (I was going to write that 'he... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A 50-year War and Still No Signs of Victory

  A few days ago the editors of The National Review reminded us that it was fifty years ago that the president of the United States declared war and despite the... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 13.1.14

  A 'mix 'n' match' set of Funnies today from a variety of sources. First, a gentle one from Miss Red: We went to breakfast at a restaurant where the 'seniors'... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 12.1.14

  Sorry, sorry, sorry: Yes, indeed, apologies for failing to show yesterday but, alas, Saturday escalated, shall we say! But I bring you glad tidings: At last, a... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Feeling Cheerful, Are You? I'll Soon Put a Stop to That!

  Just because it has stopped raining for the first time in 12 years (or does it just feel like 12 years?) and the sun has actually put his hat on and come out... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So, About This Christianity Business . . .

  Yes, I'm afraid this is yet another example of this blog-owner rambling on about a subject of which I know very little. Thus, you will be aware that much of wha... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY