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• Old Traitors Never Die, They Linger on in History

  But of course, some 70+ years on when traitors are unmasked, everyone shrugs and mutters, "Alger who?" or "So what?" before changing the subject. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Why I Shall Never Walk up the Aisle with a Gay!

  No, no, not just because the 'Memsahib' would cripple me for life, and anyway, I was talking metaphorically. I cannot support all this agitation - and... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 HUMOR

• 'Big Bubba' is Licking His Lips in D-Wing!

  So, at last, the 'Lesbian-straightener' coughs - and about time, too! Huhne pleads guilty but his ex-wife battles on either claiming that she 'don't know... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Your Monday 'funnie': 04:02:13

  With severe 'global warming' moving in this week from Canada and the arctic I trust these will warm you momentarily: An English lawyer went duck hunting in Trur... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Is Dave Really 'dead Man Walking'?

  Bitter experience of dashed hopes destroyed by hyperventilating (or perhaps just plain bored) hacks desperate to scribble something, anything, to fill the... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Yet More Corker Awards

  As you know, because I have told you often enough, the purveyers of books and manuscripts to the gentry in the counties of Dorset and Somerset are not only... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2013 HUMOR

• Sorry, Sorry, I Went A.w.o.l.

  Yes, 'absent without leave', quite disgraceful, I know, but there was nothing I could do, what with this, that, the other and everything else that suddenly... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 HUMOR

• Back to the Beginning

  

  I still remain fixated, well, fixated for five minutes at a time after which my head aches, with this problem of the very first incident of inanimate matter... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Gallant Charge of the Nagel Brigade

  

  No, not another military anecdote, although it is concerned with the 'war' between philosophers and scientists. Not, I hasten to add, that I qualify under eithe... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble 27:01:13

  Daft Dave in Davos: Is there something in the air in Davos or is it just that vile Swiss drink that is moving 'Dim Dave' further into the incoherence of being... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 HUMOR

• 'Churnalism', and Then There's Outright Lying

  

  As exemplified by The Graun' - so no surprise there, then! And, as per my previous post, it takes The Spectator in the form of its editor writing in The Coffee... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2013 MEDIA

• Churnalism: Noun: the Act of Recycling Crap

  I am obliged to my regular commenter and fellow blogger, A. K. Haart, for nudging me into this contemporary tale of journalistic incompetence. Incidentally, I... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2013 HUMOR

• Christ on a Bike . . . !

  You know how it is, you stumble and bumble along on your life's journey, mostly smoothly but sometimes hitting the odd bump or three which can cause alarm or... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 HUMOR

• Where's Kelvin McKenzie and The Sun When We Need Them?

  Der Spiegel has been kind enough to provide a summary of German views of Dave's Europe speech. Most of them are thoughtful and also totally dependent on their... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Just, for Once, Tell Us the Fucking Truth, Dave!

  

  Sorry for the bad language but sometimes the sheer amount of blatant, unrepentant and deliberate lying by our politicians becomes too much to suffer in silence. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Oooops! Apparantly CO2 Causes Global Cooling Not Warming!

  

  As you lie awake at night wondering how to find the money to pay your heating bill which is that much bigger because you're paying subsidies to the likes of... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Would You Buy a Used-car from Prof.Joanna Haigh of Imperial College?

  

  I ask because 'The Tall Bloke' reckons she's a bit dodgy, know wot I mean, John? Like, you'd need ter check the mileage twice over, see! Just kidding, I'm sure... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• You Could Almost (but Not Quite) Feel Sorry for Obama

  

  What a very odd ceremony the presidental inaugeration has become. It strives, quite rightly, to become a piece of serious political theatre but then manages to... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 SOCIETY

• 'Por Favor, Donnez-moi Ein Feigenblatt'

  Waddya mean, what's a 'Feigenblatt'? It's a 'fig leaf', for goodness sake, and if you can't speak the language of our European friends and allies - and stop tha... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Is Mrs. Merkel in the Scheisse?

  

  I can just imagine that little rat-trap mouth of Mrs. Merkel practically disappearing as it tightened in displeasure at the news that her party had been pipped... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY