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• The Sunday Rumble: 15.12.13

  

  Day off tomorrow: Just to warn you that I am on an 'away day' to morrow, back on Tuesday. Apart from seeing various old friends I will aslo be attending my... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The 'Bard' is Dead - Long Live the Inky-fingered Playwright:

  An excellent review by Charles Nicholl of what sounds like an even more excellent book by Bart van Es (no, me, neither!) entitled Shakespeare in Company - and i... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The GOP Should Remember That It Pays to Be "economical with the Actualité"!

  For the benefit of my American readers, and also you dozy, forgetful Brits, er, like me, actually, it was that rascal, the late Alan Clarke MP, who coined the... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Out-doing America in Everything May Not Be Altogether Wise for China

  

  Courtesy of ZeroHedge, this diagram provides the background: I have mentioned before my surprise at the number of reports from a variety of observers warning... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Three Corker FILM!!!

  Not too much energy left this evening because I spent the afternoon up in space and frankly, my dears, I'm exhausted! Well, of course, I wasn't really in space... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So, You See, One Day This Grasshopper Was Walking Along ...

  

  ... on his way to meet another grasshopper, his new best friend, but when he got there he found a locust waiting for him. "Who are you?" he asked. "I'm your... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Give That Man a Prize!

  

  No, no, not him! I mean the one on the right, the podgey-lookin' fella. He spent all day yesterday on the podium listening to the biggest collection of A1... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• ASB Vs. A2/D2

  Even by my normal standards of obscurity that is an incomprehensible title but I promise you that it does have a meaning and an exceedingly important, and... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I Just Want to Spoil Your Christmas - Heh-heh-heh!

  

  I'm playing 'Baron Hardup' in this year's Christmas panto and it's my job to make all the kiddie-winkies cry and wet their beds for a week, set Mum against Dad... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Rockwell, Hopper Or Breugel?"

  

  My question is taken from an excellent essay by a gentleman called Tony Hall, English by birth but Australian by residence, on a site which calls itself... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 9.12.13

  A vintage crop today designed to have you chortling whilst the boss moans about the figures for last week! Thursday morning I gradually woke up stiff as a... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 8.12.13

  Bashing the 'boomers': Amongst the wittiest of American writers, P. J. O'Rourke turns his laser-like humour on his own kind - the so-called 'baby boomer... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Then and Now

  I have been working on the script for my talk entitled How the Japanese Lost WWII in the First Six Weeks. I would have liked to add 'and it then took another... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Us and Them

  My preceding post and the commentary that followed it has made me pause and attempt to think. Hitherto it has been all too easy for people like me who are... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• La Belle France Slowly Sinks into the 'merde'!

  Two long, detailed but fascinating articles in The National Interest by Milton Ezrati, a sort of super-swot at economics and international affairs. You can... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Letter to My Dear Chumlet, 'Vlad the Impaler'

  

  Dear Vlad, So happy that things are going well for you in Syria although, be honest, skipping circles round the likes of Kerrry Obama isn't too difficult, is... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Another Man Famous for What He Did NOT Do

  I refer to our Chancellor of the Exchequor, the Right Honourable, Mr. George Osborne, or, 'Mr. Smiley' as he looked yesterday in the Commons. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• And So We Bid Farewell to Nelson Mansela

  Unusually, a man made famous for what he did not do rather than what he did, that is, on gaining power he did not organise the slaughter, or even the persecutio... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Our Authorised Icon - the National Health Service

  I promised my e-pal, Dom, a few words on our NHS - "the envy of the world" even if no-one else copies it! Like most Brits I just take it for granted because it... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Warning! Warning! Warning!

  Later tonight and during tomorrow I am changing my telephone and broadband supplier. My new supplier assures me that it is all very simple and absolutely nothin... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY