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• In the Shadow of a King!

  I have just finished a fascinating - well, fascinating to an AmDram actor like me - diary of a year in the life of David Weston. David . . . who? Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Hugo Chavez, R.I.H.

  That stands for 'Rest In Hell' as we bid farewell to yet another stupid, thuggish clown, a type of political gangster of which South America appears to have a... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Tory Apocalypse Now!

  Peter Hitchens goes further than me, well, he goes further than most people, but in this instance I cannot fault his thinking. Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 SOCIETY

• A Tiger in a Tiger!

  

  My previous post on the subject of Tiger tanks extolled the courage and cunning of a British tank crew who, out-gunned and out-armoured, simply adopted naval... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funny: 4.03.13

  I didn't have a joke ready for this morning - actually, I'm pretty hopeless at jokes, I forget them within seconds of being told them - but Andra saved the day... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble 03:03:13

  I will add further 'rumbles' to this post concerning this, that or the other during the course of the day as and when anything occurs. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Well, Did the Earth Move for You? No, Me Neither!

  According to 'The High Priest of America', chaos would reign across the land if the so-called 'sequestration' act went into operation on Friday night. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• 'A Farewell to Arms'

  A depressingly accurate editorial in this week's 'Speccie' (no link to the editorial) entitled "Little Britain". Perhaps 'Miniscule Titchy Britain' might have... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So It's Farewell, Then, Bob Piper

  You can always tell when a blog is dying. The posts become more and more intermittant and consist of more and more long-winded quotes. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 HUMOR

• Dave Humiliated by "fruit Cases, Nutters and Closet Racists"

  Only one extra thing from the Eastleigh by-election might have caused my champagne flute to overflow and that would have been a UKIP win. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 HUMOR

• How to Take out a King Tiger? Easy When You Know How - and Have Guts!

  In my last Sunday Rumble I made a passing reference to the difficulty - no, let's be honest, the virtual impossibility - of dealing with the German armoured... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I Demand to Know Why I Have Not Been Arrested for 'inappropriate Behaviour...

  It's outrageous! I have been sitting here twiddling my thumbs for the last few months waiting for 'the Plod' to come calling in order to question me about the... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Walk Tall!

  

  Via the always excellent Arts Letters Daily I was taken with an article in The Smart Set by Wayne Curtis on the fascinating subject of, well, er, walking,... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Unreadable in Pursuit of the Indefinable

  Let me begin by stating clearly that Richard Seymour, proprietor of 'Lenin's Tomb' (I refuse to give it a link), is amongst the very worst mouth-dribblers... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A View from Spain

  In response to one of his comments, I asked my regular commenter, Ortega, to provide a 'sitrep' on current Spanish affairs. He was kind enough to send in this a... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Chubby and Grubby: The il-Lib-non-Dems

  

  Happily, because I am pressed for time, today I can lean on the stalwart figure of Stephen Glover writing in today's Daily Mail in order to add my vituperation... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 24.02.13

  

  First, a bulletin from the Home Front: Apologies for the quality and the quantity, as in 'lack of', posts on the blog this week. I am still trying to get to... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• As True Astrue Can Be!

  Sorry for the confusing pun in the title but Mr. Astrue, himself, used it in one of his sonnets and you all know how adept I am at nicking other people's... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 SOCIETY

• By Jove, Pip-pip, We're All Jolly Decent After All

  'Whodathunkit'?! Peering through slitted eyes at my at my fellow subjects, a practice I try to avoid as much as possible, I would assess them as being, on the... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 HUMOR

• Is She the Most Rancid Old Hypocrite in Parliament?

  

  I give you - Dame/Lady* Margaret Hodge MP of 'Money Mountain Inc.' . . . no, don't run away . . . she's all yours . . . honestly, no charge, completely free .... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY