While you were out celebrating, the fires of liberty were being extinguished, no doubt on the principle of “yes we can”. The U.S. Congress, abetted by Obama, has passed a Bill that means you can be arrested, thrown in jail, …
Read MoreAuthor: Gerald Woodgate
I want to be a pygmy instead of pretending to be a giant. Also, a little embarrassment – and your advice, please
After Cameron’s little squabble in Europe Mr. Clegg stamped his feet and said “We risk being a pigmy on the world stage”. What an EXCELLENT prospect. I love the idea of being a pigmy nation – like Switzerland or Norway. …
Read MoreWell, well, well. Goodbye Magna Carta. Our gutless government did it to us. Now U.S. citizens can have their freedom removed. Plus Dumb-Dell
I read what follows this morning, so I have no idea whether it has come about. However, I do know that years ago Tony “I gave Gadhafi a big wet kiss” the Bliar’s flabby excuse for a government allowed the …
Read MoreWell, knock me down with a feather, he’s at it again! Does the devil have all the best tunes? Plus the world’s silliest offer
Yesterday I was on about the floppy-haired wunderkind J. P.Maroney. He looks impossibly young to be so good. In only a few short weeks he has offered to turn me into a world-class public speaker, stick me in his Genius …
Read MoreToday’s great promise: writing for trailer-park f***wits. Watch out J. K. Rowling! Also, can you walk on water?
As faithful readers know I am an eager follower of the life and works of J. P. Maroney, a man so brilliant he can turn a Norwegian Elkhound into a best-selling author in 3 days flat. This morning he writes …
Read MoreBack home, to hail, a leaky roof and a deluge of local government piffle
In New York the sun was shining. In Bristol it was pissing down. And in my flat it was going plonk, plonk, plonk into assorted buckets, bowls and pans. Only the plants, which needed watering, have escaped. Meanwhile in a …
Read MoreWhere to invest your marketing money, free audio series, IBM suggests where NOT to buy software, and meaningless promises
A few people take the trouble to write to me and comment or suggest things, which I do appreciate. Today my main challenge is to make a chili to poison the guests at my son Phil and his wife Megan’s …
Read MoreAt last! One of my favourite jokes brought to life by a rip-off specialist — or maybe he’s a philanthropist. What do YOU think?
By the time you read this I’ll be winging my way across the Atlantic to sighs of relief here in the U.K. and moans of apprehension in the New York area. A few moans from me, too, because when I …
Read MoreThe Harlot’s Progress – or The False Promise and Premiss of Procurement
In my parent’s pub hung prints of Hogarth’s great series, The Rake’s Progress and The Harlot’s Progress. Their scenes of depravity, designed as awful warnings excited me no end, though I didn’t know then that some of the figures shown …
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