Seventy years ago tomorrow (Sunday), the Soviet Union signed a pact with Nazi Germany that gave dictator Josef Stalin a free hand to take over part of Poland and the Baltic states on the eve of World War II. Most of the world now condemns the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but Russia […]
The trouble with posting on these it’s-political-correctness-gone-mad or health’n’safety stories is that you begin to become immune to them. No matter how daft the pen-pusher, how blind to common sense the box ticker is, we have started to shrug at them. That is the worst thing to do, because these […]
While Britain basked in a mini-heatwave with temperatures of more than 90° F, council workers in Milnrow, Greater Manchester could be spotted driving around the town with a cherry-picker putting up Christmas decorations…on a Wednesday in August. A whole 127 days before the big day. Why four months early? So […]
With England all out for 332 and the Aussies 133-8 at tea on the 2nd day of the final Test, thoughts are turning to what the two teams might do to fill their spare time from about Sunday lunchtime onwards. Faced with the prospect of watching England spend Sunday afternoon […]
An outbreak of common sense with a hint of behind-the-hand chuckling comes from Brazil. With all of the tact and subtlety of a whites-only swimming pool, the Metro in Sao Paulo have installed chairs specifically for the more rotund figure. They are blue instead of white and reinforced to withstand […]
If Associated Press tried any harder to manufacture a non-article for the sole purpose of having a pop at Sarah Palin then they’d need corrective surgery to untwist themselves. “Mom of Bristol Palin’s former fiance pleads guilty.” So, a story about a person only loosely connected at this time to […]
Not content with flying half way around the world to conferences in his private jet just to lecture us for leaving that little red light on the front of the TV on overnight and killing 32 polar bears an hour, Al Bore has plumbed new depths of hypocrisy. Not content […]
Opinion polls are showing Obama’s approval ratings tanking in the USA, so, ever keen to fly in the face of public opinion the BBC demonstrate once again that every his orifice is but an opportunity to climb up. This week saw the arrival of the new American Ambassador to the […]
All is not well across at Chateau Big Dollop. Concern is being aired about the proposals to allow the police to issue on-the-spot fines complete with penalty points. The idea has temporarily been beaten back by that small part of the judicial system which hasn’t fallen to the forces of […]
The Evening Standard has an editorial today which proposes a massive increase in MPs’ pay. This follows the suggestion by Sir Patrick Cormack that MPs’ pay should be doubled from the present £65,000, but at the same time they should lose their expenses. The editorial is basically arguing that the […]
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