The Sun has got its hat on,
and its coming out for Dave.……
That little ditty prompted one of my commentators to
Continue reading →The Sun has Got its Hat on…….
Opening Ceremony?
It’s Party Conference time again and the politicians and policy makers are sound-biting and persuading, flag-waving and chest-beating, egotistically eulogising and I’m afraid I just cannot take it seriously.
Continue reading →Fouetté jeté de Hoodie……
The Forum Furies.
Orestes pursued by the Furies by Adolphe-William Bouguereau
In the Eumenides there is a passage redolent of the current trend for avenging ‘wrongs’ that are perceived not to
Continue reading →Exclusive – Tonga v Scotland The Premier Championship
90th minute plus …BBC has exposed the long accepted bromide that defence wins championships. With Scotland’s defence hobbled by a long play from Clifford, the Attorney-General weathered Tonga’s early onslaught and fought back with style. Dominant midfielder play
Continue reading →“and with one leap Jack was free”
Peter Mandelson, the Business Secretary with an interest in innovative computer technology, has, in the blink of a scaly binary eyelid, moved to the right of the decimal point – from protecting the
Continue reading →The Goat Messing in Your Pint Glass.
Tonga Wonga
We are such generous creatures, we tax-payers.
Struggling with our mountain of debt, staring bankruptcy in the face, we dug deep into our pockets and stumped up £60,000 to send five MPs and two Peers on
Continue reading →Mehdi Hasan and the Right-Wing Echo Chamber.
I cannot say that I venture often into the New Statesman. James Macintyre is enough to put me off.
The headline ‘Tory Fiction, media fact’ lured me into these unexplored pastures;
Continue reading →Out of the Frying Pan and into … Gold
‘And it’s too late Benny, it’s too late, though you really did try to fake it ’
The recession’s over, right? The world economy will return to growth,
Continue reading →Post-Coital Depression
The BBC headlines over the past
Continue reading →Re-definitions – Nu-Labour speak; Issue 4
Noun.A Peer – Oxford English Dictionary definition.
1 A nobleman.
2 A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment. Noun.
A Peer – Nu-Labour definition.
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The Department of Extrapolated Statistics
Now hear this! I am immortal! You are stuck with me for ever and ever! No matter how old, wrinkled and ’sufficiently decrepit’ I become, I will not die, my arthritic old
Continue reading →Bin the Filth.
One might think that a Keep Britain Tidy poster campaign designed to grab the attention of litter-louts throughout the land would be welcomed by Home County matrons and City high-fliers
Continue reading →Let’s all do the Tonga.
Baroness Scotland, grinning happily.
The main stream media have encircled arms and are forming a long salivating line winding its way through Tongan cleaner Loloahi Tapui’s personal life, as
Continue reading →Thoroughly recommended…..
Where’s the beef, Mum?
The radical innovation will
Continue reading →In parrots we trust……
Derek Simpson’s inopportune squawking last week to the Daily Mirror that Labour under Gordon Brown resembled the deceased Monty Python parrot was hastily resuscitated by Unite’s spin artistes to read ‘Unite’s joint general
Continue reading →Quote of the week.
We’ve not seen an ounce of humility from them […] These people feathered their own nests and filled their own pockets full of a lot of cash during the course of their time […] Given all that has
Continue reading →Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown, yes that Sarah Brown, is being touted as the new face of Marks & Spencers. Perhaps Lily Cole and Twiggy weren’t sufficiently persueding us ladies to identify with them andContinue reading →Slugs and snails and puppy dog tails…..
Let me introduce you to DAN. DAN, meet the NHS.
This is what we’re buying into if we, as is currently mooted, ditch the NHS in favour of the US way of life and health. Hey! Snake oil! Let’s go
Continue reading →Pulp Fiction.
The main stream media are quick to point out to anybody who is prepared to listen that they have superior fact checking facilities and professional
Continue reading →Roll out the barrel…….
In Eng-er-land, that Eng-er-landOnly boozy faces bloom there
And there’s never any room there
For a worry or a gloom thereRoll out the barrel, we hear a barrel of lies
Roll out theContinue reading →
Apologies to all…..
My apologies, but my site is under heavy attack by spammers tonight, I shall have to turn comments off for the night, it will be read only until the morning. I regret, but in the morning I shall haveContinue reading →
‘Ere we go…….
The latest bout has enveloped
Continue reading →Dib, dib, dib, don’t do that…
Current advice from the 29th Cambridge Scout Troop – There is an element of coming-of-age about getting your first penknife; a mastery of your
Continue reading →On Lunatics and Left wingers……
The silent killer.
A Blairy definition of Britishness.
