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
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The Scheming Power of Pisa.
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 →My Precious
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 →Lego gun
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 →Nationalised services in all but name
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 →My Big Fat Alternative Eviction.
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 →Competition – Who said…?
“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 →“Six Weeks to Save the Eurozone” – Osborne
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 →UNITEd swoop for Striker
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 →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Freedom and Piracy
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
Continue reading →Pussy Snatch.
You wait years to use some headlines…..
John Hemmings MP ex -wife has just been found guilty of breaking into his lover’s house and stealing her kitten.
Continue reading →PC Plod lumbers to a conclusion.
Oh dear, things haven’t been the same in Oxford since Inspector Morse meandered his way through a half hour programme and only solved the crime when Sergeant Lewis pointed out the obvious to the cantankerous old git…..
Give Fate A Chance.
Lives are thrown into the High Court punchbowl like so many suburban key rings, and we gather round like priapic husbands, raucously commenting on the options picked out by the early life swappers.
‘Coo, don’t fancy
Continue reading →A curious sensation
Let us examine the record: unprecedented electoral success for his party; massive approval ratings; vast donations to the party. An inspired political strategy that appeared to marry conflicting goals. A media management strategy that still defines
Continue reading →What do you do with a drunken parrot?
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
Earl-eye in the morning!
It’s
Continue reading →Would you happen to know?
The answer to some technical questions which are beyond me at the moment?
Thanks to the generosity of one of my readers (you know who you are, bless you!) I have been given an Ipad to
Continue reading →Rise of the Holy Barroso Empire
Great news from the heart of Euro land. The Euro has been a massive success! As a currency it is stable, strong, and has produced massive economic growth. The inevitable conclusion is that there should
Continue reading →Sycophantitis
Sycophantitis is a debilitating virus that has been known to drain the life and soul of thousands of individuals across various social demographics in the Uk. If untreated, it can
Continue reading →Big Ern and the beneficial properties of HP sauce
Do you ever have days when it all goes wrong?
I was all ready to go home last Friday; scrubbed, showered, dressed, packed, taxi arrived, waved off into lift on the second floor.
By the time the
Continue reading →Another question for “the left”
I was perusing this piece on regulation, and something familiar leaped out of the text:
The Portland area’s response to the lack of affordable housing has been the implementation
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Gaddafi and the IRA, and the exposure of ITV
On Monday night ITV broadcast “Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA“, a documentary about the connection between Libya and the IRA. This was a serious programme about serious events though
Continue reading →A genuine question. Or two.
I have often railed against the behaviour of “the left” when it comes to confusing intentions with outcome. I have on occasion even said that I really don’t care how heartless or cruel the motive is,
Continue reading →Stupid Idiot
So a teenager called Paul Thompson has been called a stupid idiot. Now it’s well known that most teenagers are stupid idiots. I was when I was
Continue reading →The Only Way is Downton Abbey
Well done The ITV!
How clever of you to find some way of making the turgid new series of ‘The Only Way Is Downton Abbey” actually watchable by cleverly cutting to the
Continue reading →In the pub cellar
We’ve been a bit busy in the pub cellar sorting out all the beer barrels so please talk amongst yourselves for a while. Normal service will be resumed soon. Talk about
Continue reading →Caption Competition – Boxing
A virtual coconut to the reader who can come up with the smartest caption for this video.
It concerns what turned out to
Continue reading →E-petitions: the modern professional penitent?
I was reading about the terrible case of Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a policeman in in the US:
The federal court that finally reviewed evidence of Davis’ innocence
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Total Politics blew our trumpet
[Update: To reflect that the work is all done by the staff at Total Politics – to whom our congratulations – the title has been updated.]
We’ve just had the final results of
Continue reading →Angry Bird
No, not the game, the constellation or more specifically the nebula Lambda Centauri, also known as the “Running Chicken Nebula” or it could be the Angry Bird.
NASA has just released some new pictures of the nebula
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