Sometimes these Downfall clips can get a bit much, but this one is rather good. Hitler finds out that Chicago won’t be hosting the Olympics.

US-based toy retailer Toys”R”Us has been reprimanded for gender discrimination following a complaint filed by a group of Swedish sixth graders about the store’s 2008 Christmas catalogue. Last winter, a sixth grade class at Gustavslund school in Växjö in south central Sweden reported Toys”R”Us to the Reklamombudsmannen (Ro), a self-regulatory […]

If you were forced – absolutely forced – to list your top 10 examples of how, at the fag end of a dying Government each and every authoritarian wannabe is trying to jump on the Jolly Bandwagon of Stupidity as it heads towards the cliff, then this would be a […]

The Eurocrats can smell victory in the water as the blood of the Irish electorate reaches their shark-like noses and there is a sense that they have almost got their way with the unloved EU Constitution. President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic has already said that he accepts the […]

It seems as though wherever we look there are elections going on at the moment, except in the country which is crying out for one most – the UK. Tomorrows vote is in the country which gave us democracy, uzo, the Ancient Olympics and the book How To Bankrupt Yourself […]

In the words of Ben Franklin, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” And yet the Irish have surrendered. Bullied horrendously by vested interests, politicians with approval ratings so low that only McDoom could envy them and of course by […]

The 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded yesterday evening in Cambridge, MA. There were awards for the bra that converts quickly to two gas masks, a study of why pregnant women don’t tip over, the award for literature, and other gems. Ireland’s police won the literature prize from writing more […]

Question Time is on tonight at 10:35pm UK time on BBC1. The programme comes from Brighton, scene of the Labour Party self-destruction conference. David Dimblebore will be in the company of ‘Little Ben’ Bradshaw MP, (Culture Media and Sport Secretary); Theresa May MP, (Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary), Charles Kennedy […]

An excellent editorial from the Daily Telegraph today, but mixed with the All Seeing Eye Music Pick’o’The Day. All togathar now….an’ it’s No, Nay, Never…No, nay, never, no more…. When Ireland voted to reject the Treaty of Lisbon in June last year, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said the decision […]

Posted for no other reason than to annoy the Harriet Dromeys of this world, these gems are from the article “Eleven Tips On Getting More Efficiency Out Of Women Employees” by L.H.Sanders in the July 1943 issue of Mass Transportation Magazine, written for male supervisors of women during World War […]