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• Bringing Parliament into Disrepute - No-one Does It Better Than Parliament!

  Apologies for my absence yesterday but an exceedingly busy morning was followed by almost terminal inertia in the afternoon and evening. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Speak the Speech, I Pray You ..."

  " . . . as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funny: 28.10.13

  You don't really deserve any 'Funnies' today because I guess most of you bunked off work using 'the storm' as an excuse and today you are all idling away at hom... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 27.10.13

  Will there be a second American revolution? I ask because surely the stench of corruption that oozes from every pore in the American government must eventually... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 SOCIETY

• I Want This Woman to Have My Babies!

  

  Er, but not a word to the 'Memsahib', this is strictly between you and me! However, you will already know of my deep and abiding love for MDS (My Darling... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Yet Another Example of This Blog's Generosity to Its Readers

  Yes, indeed, once again I spent countless hours - er, well, a couple this morning, as it happens - scouring the global media in an effort to bring you the very... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• When Lawyers Go Political

  Even Will Shakespeare enjoyed taking a swipe at lawyers and the tradition has not abated since. However, I think it is fair to say that lawyer animosity is... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Bit of an Obit Or Two

  Somebody, and to my shame I cannot remember who, gave me a compedium of Daily Telegraph obits which, in the nature of many Christmas and/or birthday gifts,... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Big Oil Cleans up Green Slime

  This story provided me with some sardonic humour and good cheer although I should stress that the final result is not yet in. The New York Post reports that,... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Great News - Anna Raccoon is Back Counter-punching!

  Fans of Ms. Raccoon will know of her absence over recent days due to intensive surgery. We have all waited with fingers and toes crossed and I am delighted to... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Critics! Don'cha Lurve 'em?

  Well, I don't, at least, I don't love most of them. Not because they are cruel to hardworking directors and actors but because so many of them are never cruel... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Another Leftie Smear Bites the Dust

  It has always been a slight irritation to me when sundry Lefties sneer at the upper classes, particularly the aristocracy. Not, of course, that a low-life like... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Daily Dose of 'Timmy' Does You Good!

  Yes, indeed, I can highly recommend Tim Worstell whose daily posts are usually brief but absolutely spot on target. Yesterday he pointed us at an article he... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'Obamacare'? You're 'avin' a Laugh!

  

  Following the total train crash that has, with the awful inevitability of any large-scale government operation, occurred 'over there' with the introduction of... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• History? Mystery? 'Fagetabartit' - Just Enjoy This!

  This blog seems to have gone so historical recently that we have to brush the cobwebs off! So, if all this talk of battles lost and battles won is a bit... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Austerlitz - Ah Yes, I Remember It Well . . .

  

  The following is an essay from 'Son of Duff' (aka: 'SoD') to which he drew attention in a comment below in which he had the impertinence to contradict his fathe... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Trafalgar Day

  I am grateful to my e-pal, 'BOE', for reminding me of this auspicious date which has been the subject of a post by John Redwood this morning. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funny: 21.10.13

  I know, I know, it's a truly ghastly Monday morning with non-stop rain and you are in real need of a good joke to cheer you up as you face another week at the... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 20.10.13

  I confess to being a Chubby Cheekist: Yes, it is an appalling thing to confess and I'm sure that at any minute now activists from the ACCO (Anti-Chubby... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Opening Barrage

  The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War, by Margaret MacMillan, Profile Books, RRP£25, 704 pages July 1914: Countdown... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY