Davidduff

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• The Sunday Rumble: 31.03.13

  

  Rhinoceros: Should a friend, or more likely, an enemy, suggest that you trot off to the theatre to see a production of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionescu make your... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I'm Outta Here!

  No posts today because I'm off to 'Londinium' to see friends and, God help me, to see a production of Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco, a Roumanian-French playwrigh... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Forever Law of Unintended Consequences

  Shortage of time, m'Lord, has forced me to larceny and I herewith display my ill-gotten gain from the always first class Cafe Hayek, to be precise, their... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Art of War: #2

  

  I am rather busy today, part of my time being taken with driving Peg the leg-legga-leg the 'Memsahib' to the hospital where her new hip was inserted, so my... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Is God Laughing Or Crying?

  

  I ask, you see, because I have 'got religion'! No, no, I'm not banging on your door asking if you believe or any of that sort of thing, but ever since I read... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'Fat Boy' Kim Skates Towards the Very Thin Ice

  My trusty observers at NightWatch tell me that 'Fat Boy' Kim has placed all of his missile, rocket and artillery formations on the highest level of readiness... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Light at the End of the Tunnel is an Express Train Coming Fast!

  

  I rarely urge my readers to do anything but in this case I am jumping up and down and waving my arms by way of encouragement - particularly if you are one of... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 SOCIETY

• The Art of War: #1

  

  My gorgeous e-pal, 'Sister Wolf', sent me a link to a site at the National Archives featuring War Art from WWII. Mostly posters but including some portraits. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Plus Ça Change Mais Everything Stays the Same!

  I am obliged to 'my man in Moscow' - er, no, no, please, no names, discretion, old boy, toujours la discrétion! Let's just say he's a friend currently living... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Shoot One in Three 'pour Encourager Les Autres'!

  

  I do realise that my injunction above does not make clear which group should be, so to speak, targeted, so let me make clear that I am referring to Public Secto... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funny: 25.03.13

  To cheer you up as you spend the first hour in the office trying to warm up here is a great joke from, who else but Andra: An 80-year-old Saskatchewan farmer... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble 24.03.13

  

  A Grand Prix grumble: Having just watched the Malaysian Grand Prix I am now going into full 'grumpy-old-man-it-was-all-much-better-back-in-my-day' mode. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 HUMOR

• Is China's Foreign Policy Inscrutable Because It Doesn't Exist?

  I am grateful to my regular commenter, JK, for sending me a link to an article in the NYTimes written by Prof. Zheng Wang, an expert on foreign policy matters,... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I Think We Get the Message, Mr. Fraser

  

  Of course, you didn't believe me when I wrote the other day that I was waiting for young Master Fraser Nelson of The Spectator to tell me whether or not I... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Now We Have 'Fanny' Cameron and 'Freddy' Osborne Running Our Housing Market

  When considering the causes of the financial crash in America, most sensible commentators point to the quasi-governmental 'building societies', Fanny Mae and... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Inspiration Budget"? More Like a Desperation Budget!

  

  If anyone doubted what a pair of dimwitted, public school-educated plonkers we have running our country, then Osborne's pathetic performance yesterday, with... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Feeling Happy, Are You?

  Honestly, the BBC should come with a government health warning! Driving home today - after my usual early morning swim - God I'm good! - I heard the news... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Mighty European Union Trips Over a Cypriot Twig

  So, the EU apparatchiks cleared the Irish hurdle, they scaled the Portuguese cliff, they ran the race with Spain, jumped over Italy, and there before them was... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• What's the Good of Me Being Nice to Little Georgie Moonbat?

  No more 'Mr. Nice Guy', that's my motto from now on! Just the other day I was nice to little Georgie Moonbat (aka, George Monbiot) and then he goes and writes... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Tuesday Funny

  See, this week you all get an extra 'funny' not because of anything you've done but because I'm kind and generous and a really good guy at heart - sorry, did... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY