Any type at all. All that’s needed is that there enough of them. It doesn’t matter how lame or ridiculous or mad they seem. Get a critical mass of that type of person and before you know it they’re in … Continue reading →
Sainsburys are not doing as well as their supermarket rivals: Sainsbury’s lagged rivals as the worst performer of the UK’s Big Four supermarkets … In the 12 weeks to August 12, Sainsbury’s sales grew just 1.2pc, compared with a 3.5pc … Continue reading →
A bit of good news to cheer us all up: Oliver’s bid to extend his publishing phenomenon into a global restaurant empire has so far failed and instead cost him millions in cash and reams of bad headlines around the … Continue reading →
Comedian and actor Helen Lederer is angry because she’s not famous: “There’s a lot of anger,” says Helen Lederer, blue eyes blinking beneath her trademark blonde fringe. “I’m sat on a lot of bitterness.” … “I had a genuine … Continue reading →
In the comments to yesterday’s post about Ian Hislop’s article Sam Duncan says: “It was HL Mencken, the great American satirist, who said we should afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.” No it wasn’t. It was Finley Peter … Continue reading →
Regarding my post from last week about Lenin’s Red Terror (which he made no effort to hide, and every effort to publicize to the public at large), you may be wondering whether any of Lenin’s colleagues opposed the Red Terror? … Continue reading →
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop pens a rare article of defence of offensive jokes in The Telegraph, but if this is the best that can be said in favour free speech in comedy, then we’re in trouble. There is a … Continue reading →
Literally (in 1918): Here is Zinoviev addressing a gathering of Communists two weeks after the launching of the Red Terror: “We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia’s inhabitants. As for the … Continue reading →
I’ve never been one to spend a fortune on new tech when I know that within a year or two the price will drop dramatically. (I know someone who spent hundreds of pounds on a Bluray player when they first … Continue reading →
I’ve been saying for a while that it looks like the old political lines in Britain are changing. Many others have said this too, of course. One of the best recent statements of this sort of thinking, one that I … Continue reading →
That bitter Remainer being everyone’s favourite example of a loony professor, A. C. Grayling, who routinely defames Brexiteers. And the Brexiteer who mocked him by giving him a taste of his own medicine is Pete North. … Continue reading →
Elmbridge Police yesterday: If we evidence a criminal damage then we would act. But can’t usually. You say upsetting to endure, consider for a second, how upsetting it would be, being uprooted every few days. That’s why we always act … Continue reading →
Theresa May has rebuked Boris Johnson over his claim that Muslim women in burqas resemble letter boxes and bank robbers, urging the former foreign secretary to apologise after he defied an order to do so by Tory chiefs. Another open … Continue reading →
Please forgive the self-promotion (which I don’t do much of), but it’s nice when your first Amazon review is a five-star one: I have no connection to the reviewer (who posted his review on the American Amazon site). So, er… … Continue reading →
There’s an NHS dentist I go to. Whenever I go there there are rude signs all over the place threatening patients who fail to turn up to appointments, or who turn up late. Miss two appointments and you’ll be kicked … Continue reading →
