For those of you immune to the charms of spoof postings on property websites selling Ireland here’s a genuine For Sale post, and the product really is available. HMS Invincible. Availability is listed as In Stock, which is handy for Christmas. Buyer collection only, which is a pain if your tugboat […]
For your freedom-loving friends in the US, 4th Amendment Wear is underwear with that section of the United States Constitution printed on them with metallic ink. That means it will show up when worn through a TSA X-Ray machine. Fantastic! In children’s sizes too. Makes you wonder what other slogans […]
For some completely inexplicable reason (possibly he’s after a prize in the next Ig Noble Awards) someone has devoted time, effort and money to working out the most “boring” date in history. April 11th, 1954. Unless, of course, you count the most boring day happening, in which case something did […]
Perhaps it’s because their country is falling to bits that the Spanish are clutching at straws. Facing an imminent crash out of the Eurozone and a property market that’s either half built, falling down or both; one mad crone from Galicia has decided to look overseas for an investment. She’s […]
Ever feel unsafe in a taxi? Unnerved by the slightly odd driver? Feel vindicated: A Taliban fighter in Dhani-Ghorri in northern Afghanistan last month told the Guardian he lived most of the time in east London, but came to Afghanistan for three months of the year for combat.“I work as […]
Question Time tonight comes from Maidstone in Kent, once the parliamentary seat of Disraeli, location of the largest paper recycling factory in Europe and birthplace of the bloke who plays “Barry” in Eastenders. On the panel tonight we have Ken Clarke MP, ex-GMTV sofa-bunny Gloria de Piero MP, Nigel Farage MEP […]
We know that the relentlessly pro-EU propaganda of the BBC is partly due to the fact that the EU pay them to push that agenda. So in the teeth of subsidised brainwashing it’s reassuring to be reminded that the majority of the British people think we’ll be Better Off Out […]
Godfrey Bloom MEP, here, saying the phrase, “ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer,” while German Social Democrat MP Martin Schulz was addressing the EU parliament in Strasbourg. When Schulz complains, Bloom calls him an “undemocratic fascist,” at which point parliamentary president Jerzy Buzek throws Bloom out of the chamber. Schulz […]
Seen over at the excellent Muffled Vociferation, but if you haven’t been there yet or seen it through the blogroll here then it’s well worth repeating. The European Commission is making a fresh effort to persuade Britons they benefit from EU membership, with the launch of a new website. There’s a […]
Just a few decades ago, instead of demanding that we panic because of global warming, the media shrieked that we were headed for a catastrophic ice age. Our rulers must think we have awfully short memories. They should have stuck with the ice age scenario. It’s more probable and a […]
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