BZ to Captain Haddock for a tip that the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester) is putting on, from today until the 5th August 2011, an exhibition called “All Aboard: Stories of War at Sea”. “Jump aboard and test your sea legs at this major new exhibition for all the family. […]

Just received this gem… (No Subject)‏From: ExxonMobil (web38@btinternet.com)Sent: 16 July 2010 15:53:16To: Your Email id has won £1,000,000.00 GBP in the ExxonMobil Promotion.For claims send:Name:Address:Telephone: Plain text sent exactly like that… oh please….does anyone seriously fall for this nonsense?

Queen Rania of Jordan has just written a children’s book about the themes of “getting to know others, openness and multiculturalism.” The book was launched in April with a reading given by Rania at the United Nations, is on the New York Times’ bestseller list, and its promotion in the […]

In a marvellous bit of pre-Question Time LiveBlogging nonsense, let’s rejoice in the fact that fuckwittery is alive and kicking (unlike the badger) in Hampshire: Workmen painting white lines on a road left a gap for a dead badger because they said it was not their responsibility to move it. […]

Question Time tonight comes from Bexhill-on-Sea; famous for staging the UK’s first ever motor race and the discovery of the world’s oldest spider web encased in amber. The constituency of Bexhill and Battle is represented by Greg Barker (C) On the panel we have Francis Maude, Andy Burnham, George Galloway, Nick Ferrari and […]

A note from the Dorset Submariners Assoc. which will appeal to matelot readers everywhere. Since the tot was stopped on 31st July 1970 the Corner House Inn on Portland has still had Up Spirits on the Saturday nearest 31st July.  This year it falls on the 31st itself and is […]

Blogging in a hurry this morning so apologies, but this article in last month’s Boston Globe makes for interesting reading on the mindset of their anonymous commenters (and they don’t like’em very much). It makes a nice follow-up to the previous post about the drive to enforce compulsory blandness and […]

Would you pay to leave a comment on a blog? Even a nominal fee? What about a nominal fee specifically designed to reveal your identity? The identity part would appeal to insane Scottish blogger Cllr Terry Kelly (unlinked, Google for ‘arse‘ to find his site), and the fee part would […]

An excellent FrontPage Symposium discussing the attitudes of people who hate Wilders mainly because if he is correct their whole cosy world would disintegrate. It’t not often an article comes with a recommended reading all the way through tag but this one certainly scores. A flavour: “Today we witness the blatant […]

It’s a sort of Where Are They Now? post, except the answer is she’s not dead just yet. Molly Norris, the US cartoonist who inspired the “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” online protest has been publically placed on a hit list by Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki. From the New York Daily News: A CHARISMATIC terror […]