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• Au Revoir, Louis, Et Merci!

  

  And so we bid farewell to Louis Jourdan, resistance fighter and actor who died recently at the grand age of ninety three. I think I only ever saw him in one fil... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Yes, I'm a Sucker for Punishment!

  In fact, thinking about my incipient masochism, I should have had a role in that 'Fifty Shades of Tedium' film! Even so, having battled my way through... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which I Dare to Take on 'The Kraut' ... Sort of ...

  Yes, I know my title comes across as wet and feeble but you don't take on 'The Kraut' (Charles Krauthammer, for the British uninitiated) even "sort of" without ... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 16.2.15

  Hey-ho, it's Monday morning again and you poor wage-slaves face another week at the coal-face. So here, from an old retiree with bugger-all else to do all day,... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 15.2.15

  

  Woman's vagina widened: As you regular readers know, this blog prides itself on being totally non-sexist and thus, following my earlier report on penis... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• And Lo, the Gods of Drama Hurled Down Their Thunderbolts

  Well, they didn't actually but they bloody well should have done! I have just returned - early - from the English Touring Theatre production of Tom Stoppard's... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which This Blog Gets Even More Cultural

  I am writing this late on Friday to warn you that tomorrow this blog will fall silent because I am taking the 'Memsahib' to Bath for a combined shopping (dread... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• No, No, No, I Was the First to Have a Penis Reduction Operation!

  Honestly, you just can't believe anything you read in the papers these days. The Daily Mail is carrying a story reporting on an American teenager who has just... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Love's Labour's Lost: Dir. Christopher Luscombe

  And so off we tootled last night to our local cinema complex to a see a 'simulcast' of the current RSC production of Love's Labour's Lost which is running in... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I Think I Am What I Am Therefore I Must Be!

  My title comes with an apology to the late Monsieur René Descartes who was capable of much greater thinking than I can summon up at nine o'clock on a chilly... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I'm on the Last Lap

  Yes, it's been hard going in places and I had to draw on my last reserves of stamina but I managed to break through the pain threshold and now ahead of me I... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Having Your 'Sachertorte' and Eating It

  Not too surprising that the erudite Mr. John Redwood MP explains the fundamental problem with the eurozone much more elegantly than I can: Ever since she... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Out of Africa - If You Have Any Sense

  For several months now I have been contemplating a post on the imminent demise of the African continent. For once, however, my ignorance held me back - and... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 9.2.15

  Yes, you wage slaves, I know it's freezing cold but that's no excuse for hanging around the coffee machine all morning, get back to your desks and read your... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 8.2.15

  From a former radio operator: Yes indeed, that was one of my jobs in the army but I have been a radio fan since I was about five! Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• For God's Sake, It's PEOPLE Not God Who Are to Blame!

  You may need to sit down with a stiff drink before reading this but I very nearly felt a twinge of sympathy for President Obama yesterday. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Even High-stakes Poker is Not Much of a Spectator Sport

  And to add to the difficulties, the current high-stakes poker game going on between the EU panjandrums and those scruffy Greek oiks is all taking place behind... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Fella's a Total Trot, of Course, but I Like the Sound of Him!

  I refer to Mr. Dan Hodges, distinguished scribbler for Her Majesty's Loyal Telegraph and son of that socialist firebrand, Ms. Glenda Jackson MP. Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride!"

  Thus, said my dear, old Mum, not once, not twice but uncountable times! And thus sayeth, sort of, Mr. Bruce Walker at The American Thinker. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Pity the Poor Statesman!

  Oh, go on, give it a try because sometimes, just sometimes, you have to feel sorry for them. Take the Ukrainian imbroglio for starters. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 HUMOR, SOCIETY