When the Nazi leaders at the end of the war were tried, the prosecutors bent some of the rules. Nobody lost too much sleep over that. They were criminals, everyone could see, just as Pol Pot and his followers were, …
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Measured reaction to economic crisis
I see that Ministers are not being panicked by the economic crisis, because for them there isn’t one. Porqui “My old man’s a wanker” Smith billed taxpayers £40 for a barbecue in her second home – no doubt on the …
Read MoreThe Baldrick approach to running things
When I read the news this morning it suddenly occurred to me that the only way to describe this government is to say that it has the Baldrick approach to problems. British readers will recognise Baldrick, shown here, as the …
Read MoreGarbage in, garbage out
That’s an old acronym from the computer business you probably recognise. It sprang to mind not in the context of the mountain of half-truths concocted by the G20 cronies to kid us they are doing anything as a result of …
Read MoreWhat are you lot so pleased about?
Well, George Orwell put it best in Animal Farm. “Some animals are more equal than others.” They are all pleased because we are all paying. They are all pleased because they will achieve the square root of fuck all at …
Read MoreWhy is this man still being paid? And other scandals
The man with the visionary expression and the weak chin is “Rick” Wagoner, in charge of running General Motors into the ground for the last nine years. The photographer had a tough job making him look anything but a wanker**. …
Read MoreOne law for them; one for the rest of us?
A friend sends me pretty good jokes at regular intervals. He is what they now call “gay” but used to call all kinds of things. The line under his last one read: Kentucky, five million people, 15 last names. That’s …
Read MoreHe must be spinning in his grave
This is John Maynard Keynes, the great economist, whose most famous put down may have been, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?” Of course, if he’d been talking to the Gordian Twat the …
Read MoreSee the world’s most watched clip – and rejoice
Bloody hell! I go away for five days, come back yesterday – and nothing’s changed. Yet another Minister is found to have been been fiddling his expenses. An article reads “Cameron talks of the pain of losing his son” which …
Read MoreAt last! Ready-made advertising drivel. One small lurch backwards for mankind
Do you get my helpful marketing ideas, dear reader? I know many of you do, and I am not trying to sell them to the rest of you, as they cost nothing. Anyhow, one of the joys of sending them …
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