It’s back! Question Time is on tomorrow night at 10:35pm UK time on BBC1 for what will be its 30th anniversary. As usual there will be a live chat during the programme hosted on Biased-BBC which will be presided over by David Vance, and yours truly will be be providing […]

People talk of “barriers” or “milestones” or “tipping points” or “marks” and assign them a significance far beyond their actual worth. Hitting a century at Lord’s. Getting that telegram from the Queen. Watching the FTSE top 6000. This is not one of those moments. Every one of those 201 servicemen […]

WASHINGTON – In a stunning development, President Barack Obama and his wife were arrested yesterday on charges of child abuse and human cruelty, after it was revealed they had fed their own children, visiting dignitaries, local school children, and a women’s homeless shelter “organic” vegetables from the First Lady’s garden […]

Your (previously) dual-conspirators have given the GrumpyOldTwat a non-sweary haven in exchange for St Crispin and (more likely) TheEye a chance to vent their spleen in splendidly obscene verbosity elsewhere. This will remain, by agreement between St C, G.O.T. and myself a non-sweary family-friendly blog. The welcome could not have […]

TheEye and St Crispin have, by and large, managed to contain their general venom for the few months that this blog has existed. It’s been non-sweary and will remain (roughly) so. However, there are times when words need to be said, and GrumpyOldTwat and TheEye have come to an arrangement. […]