“….Flossie felt trapped. The Royal Regiment of Wales were in Afghanistan.   And they were homesick” It’s not much different to the ‘treatment’ that the sheep will be familiar with from the locals though. Who’d want to eat mutton stew out there when the animal’s probably ‘used’ and slightly salty? […]

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Question Time tonight comes from London. On the panel we have ex-spook and future Foreign Secretary Rory Stewart MP, the “ginger rodent” Danny Alexander MP, newt-loving nutter Ken Livingstone, rocker-druggie Mick’s ex-wife Bianca Jagger and historian Niall Ferguson. Red Ken on tonight, eh? Doubtless Boris will be on next week for […]

Sometimes it’s okay to steal what you need just to survive. And judging by these two e-Fits from the Wilts and Gloucester Standard you can utterly forgive these two for stealing cosmetics in a raid on a beauty store. As Nick Ross used to say…Don’t have nightmares…do sleep well. And […]

So after a lot of posturing and hand-wringing, he’s finally done it. Florida Pastor Terry Jones has burned that Koran. And he had the cameras on hand to record it. Ironically it comes at the same time as a judge in Tampa has ordered sharia law, not US law, to […]

Here’s one for the splendid Captain Haddock to investigate and report back on for us all. Are you a sea captain in need of close companionship? Are you a landlubber who craves the crustiness of a grizzled old sailor? Well, there’s a website devoted to your needs. A dating website […]

Okay, not quite as blunt as the Sun’s Gotcha! front page when the Belgrano was sunk, but do you think their headline writers are getting a bit bloody carried away with all this stuff on tomorrow’s front page?

There was a time, a while ago, when spammers made a real effort. You got a back-story worthy of a (fairly drunk) Dickens; spinning tales of doomed airline flights, lost gold bullion and Nigerian names which look like a bad hand at Scrabble. Some of you may know that under […]

As if we haven’t got a few other things going on at the moment. That this House notes with concern the comments of Brian True-May, the producer and co-creator of ITV’s Midsomer Murders, in which he implied that the show would not be successful if it included ethnic minority characters; […]