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An utter disgrace

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:21:13 +0100

I vaguely watched that television two-parter those other evenings on Channel Four: 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth, about battles that took place that year between the inhabitants of these islands and invading Vikings and Normans.

Should we really be letting these people in?

Wed, 06 May 2009 19:17:00 +0100

Announcing a list of people she has decided to ban from coming to Britain because she doesn't like their opinions, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith declared, 'If you can't live by the rules that we live by, the standards and the values that we live by, we should exclude you.'

What to do

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:15:12 +0100

On That night in 1997, round at friends, when I could take no more they said don't worry, it might not be that bad, and for a while, I suppose, it wasn't.

So whose fault is that, exactly?

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:16:46 +0100

According to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, humanity risks being "choked, drowned or starved by its own stupidity" if we don't take action now about issues such as climate change.

Take 'em for a spin, Ted

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:11:41 +0000

Good grief. Just when you think things can't get any worse, the government manages to soar to ever greater heights of lunacy.

Kick God out of the CoE. He's a racist

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:50:15 +0000

The Church of England has voted to ban its clergy from being members of the British National Party. I don't know why. I thought religion and fascism had a long and lustrous association. Just look at Spain. Or Ireland, come to that. But maybe that's just the, you know, left-footers. Papists. Pope-botherers. Maybe the good old Church of England is different, although one might have thought that telling other people how to live was the essence of both the BNP and CoE. On balance, though, the BNP would seem fairer-minded. Perhaps they ought to retaliate by banning any of their members from going to church on Sunday. Mind, they probably off worshipping Odin or something like that anyway. I wonder if Odin-worship would preclude them joining the CoE. Probably not.

Appalling, simply appalling

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:30:47 +0000

Jeremy Clarkson's comments about Gordon Brown really were disgusting. Was it really appropriate, after all, to call him "one-eyed" and make fun of his disability in that he lost the sight in one eye when a youngster? No wonder disability campaigners were outraged. And as for making childish, vulgar abuse, in calling him an "idiot", was just, well, childish and vulgar. But to accuse someone of being "Scottish", that really was outrageous. Appalling, simply appalling. He should sue. (Besides, I'm not sure he's well enough qualified to be an "idiot".)

Great new TV programme

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:13 +0000

Have you seen that TV programme where an egomaniac convinced he’s cleverer than everyone else travels back in time, saving the world, and often the universe, solely by his own efforts, although occasionally aided by a dozy sidekick?

Getting it right for once

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:09:48 +0000

Have you seen the new Bonn Square? It's fantastic. Big open paved square, sheltered by surrounding buildings, loads of seats. They've created a giant smoking area. When they put the patio heaters in it will be brilliant. Congratulations to (and you can't say this often) Oxford City Council. It's finally recognising the needs of important minorities.

Essential reading

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:07:01 +0000

In his column in Sunday's Observer (a paper stolen, I would like to add, from the bins of the Kasbah - I figure I fork over sufficient cash in the form of a poll tax to the leftists at the BBC under threat of prosecution without voluntarily giving any money to the Trotsykites at the Guardian), Will "I'm Always Right" Hutton, wrote, 'When the euro was launched ten years ago, an unnamed euro-sceptic currency trader - now almost certainly redundant [petty, snide conceited little jibe, don't you think?] - famously called it a toilet currency. Last week it climbed to an all-time high against the pound', and advocated joining the euro as a solution to our economic woes.

WHO should be in charge?

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:04:18 +0100

"This is no time for a novice" to be running the country, Gordon Brown told the Labour Party conference in Manchester this week, to much unctious fawning and applause.

Give me my share

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:18:04 +0100

It is probably true to say, I would grudgingly admit, that when the world's leading economists, financiers and bankers gather to discuss economic policy, mine is not usually the first name at the top of the list of people they wish to advise them.