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Thank you, thank you, thank you

One of my colleagues remarked today that I was being provided a lot of material for this record of the random follies of mankind. But few greater gifts have been given lately than the news of the schoolboy who, out …

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Could I interest you in Mr. Jenkins’ cock?

Did that get your attention? I spent far too many years trying to interest people in mine, and it cost me millions, so I can’t really recommend this particular approach. However, I do suggest you go and have a look …

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Dickheads at the helm, friends

I strongly believe that in many ways marketing is done a lot worse than it was 20 years ago. O.K., I’m a miserable old sod who thinks things were always better way back when. But I have two reasons for …

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The dangerous divide widens

I see that so many police have fiddled their expenses that instead of being punished they’re all to be let off with a caution. Whereas so many politicians fiddled their expenses that most didn’t get a caution at all: many …

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Thoughts on the idiot’s goldfish bowl

To me every day when I meet someone or learn something new and interesting is a wonderful day. I don’t count on TV much in that respect. Maybe it’s the churlishness of old age. However, yesterday having laboured over my …

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Nostalgia runs riot …

In reply to my cri de coeur yesterday my old friend Malcolm Auld, the toast of Manly, NSW, made me laugh with a message simply headed: “RE: aahh, sex in a wardrobe…those were the days …” Absolutely typical. Mal always …

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