Given the intensity of Jeremy Clarkson’s assault on the reputation of the caravan, you might have expected that the Caravan Club would need the services of a heavy weight Public Relations Outfit, and perhaps at a pinch,
Jockey-wheeling for attention…..
Parliament and My Little Pussy………
Continue reading →
Making the world a better place…..
I had not thought that I should write tonight, nor possibly ever again.
The bronchitis turned to pneumonia; Italian Doctors, a tent on an Italian campsite and pneumonia are not the best of companions, and I
Continue reading →A Raccoon-a in Ancona…..
Or not, as the case may be. Apologies folks. The plan was that I should be in a house in Ancona with broadband, and you would be entirely unaware of any disruption in service. Along the 2000 Continue reading →
Perception is everything.
If you are the Labour Minister (well, he was then, but that was a whole Continue reading →
Get them by the Short and Curlies
We’ve all had great entertainment from The Daily Telegraph’s dripping tap exposé on MPs’ expenses. With oohs and ahhs we picked over the bones of discombobulated baby-kissers. Our outrage knew no bounds. But all of it was Continue reading →
Watch the Pennies and the Pounds will take care of themselves
The London Mint Office is offering £50 apiece for thousands of new, undated British 20p coins produced by the Royal Mint. An estimated 50,000 – 200,000 have been produced and put into circulation. But Continue reading → Censorship – Love it or Hate it?
Madoff given 1% in years of what he stole in pounds
This afternoon Bernard Madoff was given a 150 year prison sentence for masterminding the largest fraud the world has ever seen . The gallery cheered as the sentence was handed down. But Continue reading → Raccoon bites off man’s penis
Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with friends when he leapt on the terrified animal.
Continue reading →
Pharmageddon – ironing out eccentricities.
Primitive societies knew what to do with
Continue reading →Truth and Consequences.
Whilst the Punch
Continue reading →“You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel………”
Couldn’t resist it Mr G!
Continue reading →Sadistic pleasures on the Isle of Sodor.
Continue reading →
Bercow beckoned, and unbecoming Burkhas.
As the days are getting shorter, so it seems are the newsworthy men.
John Bercow elevated to the Speaker’s chair, by tradition, not because he couldn’t reach it unaided, was not
Continue reading →The Times…They are a-Changin’
To Trough is Human, to Steal Devine,
All Things Brown and Beautiful, All claimants large and small, All acts wise and wonderful, The Lord Brown made them all. The rich man in his castle,Continue reading →
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of Maddie-ness,
In the land of the one-eyed King………..
Profligate is good. Gordon Brown has been sounding like a cracked record of late, stuttering his way through Prime Minister’s Question time, pausing only to expose his slack tongue in the floor of his
Continue reading →Vera Baird QC – ’tis baffling.
MPs redacted expenses have been released this morning by the parliamentary authorities. HERE
Don’t bother looking up Tony Blair’s – so redacted as to be a miracle he admits his name is Tony
Continue reading →Renovation, renovation, renovation.
followed by resignation, resignation, resignation…….. Kitty Ussher of the £20,000 house makeover has just resigned, saying she ‘didn’t want to cause Gordon Brown any more embarassment’ Ms Ussher took the step amid reports she flipped the designation Continue reading →
Foster’s XXXX
Old Holborn, with characteristic chutzpah, has outed young Patrick in return. If Patrick is congratulating himself
Continue reading →Who blinked first?
The answer is that Colin Port did.
It is one thing grandstanding to the tabloid readers and assorted bigots, quite another to face up to the wrath of three High Court judges.
Hours
Continue reading →The indignity of this forced marriage.
On Sunday, whilst the world was consumed with the Moto GP duel, Geert Wilders was giving a remarkable speech to the Danish Free Press Society concerning the battle between two ideologies. It is a
Continue reading →Be afraid Guido, you too Old Holborn….
If the censors don’t get you, the Margaux might! Old joke: What is the most popular French whine? : Where is my tip, Messrs? Hat (tip) to The Register. Continue reading →
No hiding place for bloggers…….
Mr Justice Eady refused an injunction to prevent The Times
Continue reading →Why France? – No 3.
I had a choice yesterday. Watch Rossi disappear up his own exhaust, or watch the area heats for the Tracteur Pulling 2009 European Championship. Or do the ironing
I opted for second choice on the grounds that it
Continue reading →May the force be with you – in your cell.
The tentacles of the troughing pandemic are spreading into every corner of public life.
Little wonder that that the Metropolitan Police were so unwilling to press charges against MPs in respect of alleged fraudulent expenses
Continue reading →The one eyed trouser snake’s true purpose exposed.
A six foot tall long one eyed snake, with the ability to penetrate difficult enemy targets such as democratic institutions Continue reading →
Rake’s Progress.
Nu-Labour’s desire to infiltrate every last bastion of your private life continues unabated.
The Family and Parenting Institute, yet another government funded quango, is to be headed by the ferociously feminist Dr Katherine Rake.
Continue reading →