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• My Spot On, Dead Accurate (honest, Guv!) Forecasts for the Year

  My somewhat dismal forecasting results during the year have given rise to a certain amount of criticism from different quarters. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Hard to Believe, I Know, but I Was Wrong!

  But at least I am consistently wrong! No chance of any nasty surprises here, at D N, like getting things right. I still cannot quite believe that the American... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• And Chicago Hits the Big Five-Oh-Oh!

  Well, whodathunkit? Just as I was giving up on Chicago and beginning to think they had all turned into model, goody-two-shoes, citizen wusses suitable for a... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Go On, Go and Be Raccooned, It's Good for You!

  Honestly, I wouldn't be without my daily 'Raccooning'. OK, sometimes it's a bit uncomfortable when you realise how spoon-fed you are and how easily and... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Save Me! I'm Turning into a 'telly-trog'!

  Seriously, folks, I beginning to worry about myself. Several days have passed and I haven't even touched a book, well, except to sling a couple off the couch... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Gotta Just Love That Little 'Georgie Moonbat'!

  George Monbiot is an archetypal example of a tremendously well-educated twat! I keep thinking that he was never born, he simply walked off the pages of the old... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Un-true Face of an Eco-totalitarian

  

  Looks harmless enough, doesn't he? Nice smile, properly dressed, respectable-looking chap, could be your local choir-master, perhaps. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So That's It, Then - for Another Year!

  So, how was it for you - as I never asked the 'Memsahib'? Christmas, I mean! Another one bites the dust and here I slump, like you, I guess, surrounded by the... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Moral Muse, Or, a Moral Maze?

  You will all be relieved to know that I am not offering up a 'Monday funny' today because most of you idle lot are not working and, if truth be told, this... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Proof That the Posh Boys Are Lying Liars

  

  Government Health Warning: Reading this post may ruin your health, or at least, give you violent indigestion during your Christmas lunch! So, how's all that... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Best Christmas Wishes to You All

  

  As I explained this time last year, this is an example of accidental art at its best. Taken in less than 10 seconds from opening my bedroom window to slamming i... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Have They Got Too Big for Their Plod-like Boots?

  An excellent article in today's Telegraph by the assiduous Andrew Gilligan on the subject of 'our boys and girls in blue'. He makes a strong case for believing... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Did It All Begin with Bork?

  With glum, and, yes, probably tedious, regularity I have re-iterated my forebodings concerning the United States of America. The re-election of Barack Obama, a... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• More Duff Science!

  I may have to go and lie down shortly, all this swot-stuff is making my head ache!  However, no sooner had I finished trashing my pathetic attempt at... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Never Mind the Fracking, What About the Fractals?

  

  Up here in my garret the walls are covered in a variety of pictures.  Nothing of much merit.  Quite a lot of them are just old photos of drunken... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 PHYSICS, SCIENCE

• Message to America: DON'T GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!

  I beg you, America, do not, under any circumstances, fall for the blandishments, the pleadings, the tearful implorings, the constant repetition of... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Your Monday 'funny': # 8

  I'm up, off and away today, lunching with one friend, taking tea with another, delivering Christmas cards to two others and then to my theatre... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 HUMOR

• One More for the Vomitorium

  Not much time this evening to write and nor, to be truthful, have I had much time during the weekend to follow the news in detail which, given the massacr... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Not God but 'SoD' Descended

  Apologies for my absence I forgot to warn you all that 'SoD' was due for his pre-Christams visit before he and his lovely lady depart for the land of... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• At Last, Ed Hopper Cracks Paris!

  

  According to the WSJ, Edward Hopper has never 'made it' in France - until now, that is.  Alas, I cannot quote more fully from their report because 'my mat... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY