With its Trougher shaped features, tentacles reaching out into many different pies, transparently full of sh*t, it dwells beneath the surface of our understanding, and is always smiling to itself….
I give you, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph, a
Continue reading →I posted yesterday on the different attitude between France and the UK to families being present in a hospital and helping nurse their relatives. I hadn’t appreciated until the comments started coming in – and a couple
Continue reading →Are you old enough to remember when you went through the weekly budget with a pencil, working out whether you could afford to go down to DER and rent a TV? Remember when carpets only covered the
Continue reading →Prompted by a post by LongRider about safe limits and drinking and driving I started thinking about his idea that there shouldn’t be a law against drinking and driving
Continue reading →You don’t have to lift Johann Hari’s shirt tail far to reveal a nest of brown nosed friends positively panting to rehabilitate him, or whatever they call it these days.
We have a fine example this
Continue reading →I bet you’re wondering who or what or where a Kapsalon is?
The clue is in the picture above. It’s a type of food. The name is
Continue reading →The Blogess and how to reply to spam mail. Leg-Iron on the Americans and Irony. Nic Lowe on Engineering Laws.
Continue reading →Fox hunting may be considered an odd occupation for the politically correct left, but they make an exception for old Liam. Reynard flâneur. A walker. (I am indebted to Charon QC for introducing me to that
Continue reading →I wasn’t around to see the football of the late 1970s and was unable to gather a full understanding of what took place for most of the next decade. Watching
Continue reading →There is a sound reason why sane people don’t study the Law – it fries your brain. Normal people wish to retain a few brain cells to enable them to do ordinary things – like cross the
Continue reading →Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two
Continue reading →The European Commission believes it is backed by a “silent majority” in favour of its push for further EU integration and potential future role as the economic government of Europe.
I didn’t make
Continue reading →In the course of current debate about the future of press regulation, there is a risk that any form of regulation will become a byword for draconian state interference – employed by none so oft as our
Continue reading →The political and economic crisis in Europe has ignited a spark of doubt in the European Union project across The Old Continent.
The United Kingdom always leads the crowd when those kind of doubts come to the
Continue reading →I quite like Theresa May. It may be because I am an inveterate flirt and quite like posh women with fancy tastes in shoes. I don’t know. And when
Continue reading →It was this photograph that tipped me over the edge.
Mr and Mrs Marks and Spencer modelling the conference ‘limited edition’ special.
The Halfords’ Area Manager arriving for the Chairman’s annual garden party.
Just
Continue reading →Yet another sad or brilliant person (depending on your point of view) has done something else in Lego. This person has managed to re-create the famous M.C. Escher
Continue reading →Take good note of the face above – it belongs to Nick Pisa, professional journalist; one of that breed of trained fact gatherers and disseminators of trustworthy information essential to society – without such valued souls, we
Continue reading →Why do people get so precious about random objects and desire them to exit forever?
Or in other words, I’m going to write about two seemingly totally separate cases but which have the common theme of not
Continue reading →A sad person, or a clever person (it depends on your point of view) has made a working gun out of lego. Before you say wow!, its not a working gun in
Continue reading →Privatisation was introduced as a policy in the late 1970s by politicians who saw the benefit to the consumer that would result from competition between the suppliers of goods
Continue reading →There can be no doubting that Robert Stephenson’s intentions were honourable; a Catholic who had experienced great hardship following the Reformation. He risked everything, including his own life, to provide shelter for Catholic priests.
He
Continue reading →“I had never seen so many £50 notes. Our friendship was undoubtedly consolidated that afternoon in our knickers”.
A bumper pack of Basset’s Liquorish Allsorts for the first correct answer – bonus points for knowing who
Continue reading →Try to dismember Greek debt by November
That ton of cash they begged and borrowed
Serial offender, they’ve been on a bender
They spent like there was no tomorrow
Tried to pretend they could endlessly fend off
The austerity which must surely follow
But in
Continue reading →Breaking news – UNITEd have issued a press release confirming that they have just completed the signing of an internationally-renowned striker.
The player (who has obtained a superinjunction
Continue reading →After the non-aggression axiom, the right to own property has always been high on the list of fixations of those of a libertarian instinct. How property is defined, however, has been
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