I thought we might take a little sliced and diced Quango for lunch today as we wait for Francis Maude to decide precisely which of the Quangos should go on his autumn bonfire.
One of those
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OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
IÂ met a Traveller from a Mancunian land,
Who said, “Two vast and union-less supported legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the conference floor,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled
Simple Solution No.64
The Parish of Puttenham is palpitating with prurient paraunia. You donât get many opportunities in life to write a sentence like that. Iâm grabbing it whilst I still can.
The children at
Continue reading →The Brazil Nut.
Obo was remarkably cagey about revealing the new project he was involved in when he decided to give up blogging to concentrate on his new life.
We might have guessed
Continue reading →Mother’s Revenge?
Much has been made of JamieânâJools Oliverâs choice of name for their new baby son (Buddy Bear) who joins Poppy Honey, Daisy Boo and Petal Blossom. Â Itâs nice that all the little Oliver children have
Continue reading →Chutzpa!
The art of gamesmanship and how to give your opponent sleepless nightsâ¦.
Phil Woolas and Elwyn Watkins are locked in mortal combat over the alleged corruption of Phil Woolas, the sitting MP,
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Leftness takes its toll
We’re astounded, voters fleeing
Leftness takes its toll
But listen closely, not for very much longer
I’ve got to produce thousands of tractors
The Carpetbagger returns home….
Sad news.
Nick Hogan, the publican jailed for allowing smoking on his premises, who was freed by the goodwill of the blogosphere, has just phoned me â with great difficulty.
He has suffered a
Continue reading →It should’ve been me, me, me…….
Brotherly Love – The Godfather style.
Brotherly love – Labour Borgata style.
Genesis Chapter 4 – King James Version – as slightly revised by Brother Gildas
Gen 4:1 And Ralph knew his wife Marion; and she conceived, and bare Abel Dave, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD, I think. Though it has to be admitted itâs a
Continue reading →Sutton Journalist – âdouble standardsâ.
A provincial junior journalist writes of her local MP lambasting a national newspaper for âspreading liesâ – with a dead straight face.
A remarkable achievement for young Julia Kennard â the last time
Continue reading →Police Community Support Officers
If you define a police officer as someone who goes out in public wearing a uniform then a PCSO could be regarded as a police officer. However, it would also follow that bus drivers, nurses
Continue reading →Is This Legitimate ?
GEORGE VIIÂ REX ANGLORUM DEFENDER OF THE CONSTITUTION
Am I surely not the only person to be wondering what the Hell is going on
Continue reading →Ed Militant©
Ed Militant on the Andrew Marr show. Exclusive to Grumpy Old Twat.
Was there ever any doubt? There might have been doubt in the minds of the MPs,
Continue reading →Sunday Sermon – The Redemption of Brooksie
I wonder who remembers âMoonlightingâ? It was all the rage back in the 80âs, and featured Cybil Shepherd and a young Bruce Willis as the wisecracking private detective. Being of
Continue reading →Hold the front page – Dog bites Dog
Priscilla would refuse to go for a walk in the daylight….
A big increase in the number of violent dog-on-dog attacks, particularly in urban areas, has been
Continue reading →International Day of Multi-Lingual Blogging.
Towards the end of Queen Victoriaâs reign, the British Empire extended to one-fifth of the earthâs surface and almost a quarter of the worldâs population at least theoretically owed allegiance to our Monarch and the âMother countryâ.
The Devadasis.
Sex and Religion have long been entwined. Raw instinct and moral intervention. There is some sympathy for the view that religion was invented in order to control and constrain sexual activity. Certainly the Church
Continue reading →The Acid Bath
In 1940 two men slipped into Britain using forged immigration papers to escape the totalitarian regimes of the both Stalin and Hitler
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Uncle Sam’s Fifth Column.
The tentacles of Franceâs obsession with equality run deep. It was originally an equality of the sexes and equality of the social status that was envisaged and enshrined in French law, long before the
Continue reading →Ode to Obo.
Close bosom-friend of the Libertarian;
Conspiring with him how to groan and cuss
With venom, the parliamentarians that circles round us run;
To joust with argument aplenty,
And fill Continue reading →
The Raccoon Arms and Other Cyber-Pubs.
A Frenchman who is taking a commendable interest in English political blogs asked me the other evening why so many of the blogs professed to be Libertarian. It was a good question, and one I struggled to
Stick it to the tax man
Ironic to find an article of this nature in the Guardian, home of left-leaning wombats and “supporters” of the Liberal Dimocrats. Perhaps they want to try and deny a Conservative government funds? Certainly, it is a Continue reading →
Simple solutions in the 21st Century.
Those of us of a certain vintage remember walking to school. Everyone did it. Most of our parents didnât own a car anyway. If they did own a car they certainly wouldnât have taken
Continue reading →Nanny Charity No 94.
I think I might just burst a blood vessel today. I am being assailed on all sides by press releases which turn out to be backed by âcampaignsâ involving charities, web sites, meetings, initiatives,
Continue reading →The Muppet Huppert.
If you had met the team of people supporting Julian Huppertâs campaign in Cambridge for a seat in parliament, as I did, you would possibly have the same impression of him that I do. Only a muppet
Give a Dog a Bad Name.
Your starter for ten points! What is the point of having your dog micro chipped?
- So you can prove it is yours if it is stolen?
- So
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For Whom the Bell Toils?
Stuart Bell has been the Labour MP for Middlesbrough for 27 years. The good people of Middlesbrough have put him back in parliament year after year in grateful thanks â for what?
During the past
Continue reading →A waste of space.
Jean Beaumont had lost her husband, and her health. She was gradually losing her mental faculties. At 81, the world was changing round her in ways she coud no longer comprehend.
She was grateful when the
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