Other Men's Flowers

Some years ago a former housekeeper of the Duke of Westminster sued him at an industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal. It came out at the h...

We often wring our hands about today's widespread vandalism and yobbish behaviour, and speak nostalgically of the days when there wasn...

This is an unsatisfactory word, since it applies not to one who has cuckolded somebody else, but to one who was passively cuckolded. I think...

Well, that's what it's been, so those who were actually there have been telling us for the past sixteen days. No doubt about it, thi...

One of the best examples of man's tendency to hold on to an ideal long after experience has rudely shattered it may be seen in our attit...

It was thought worth noting in the Guardian obituary of a distinguished rabbi who died the other day that his older brother had been for man...

Extract from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913 (You can search these HERE ) 20th May 1681...

I see that last weekend yet another footballing big girl's blouse received a bit of a knock and collapsed writhing in pain until he was ...

A young person of my acquaintance who has no respect for age and infirmity has pointed out that Other Men's Flowers , while purporting t...

The trouble with having a personal deity rather than thinking of it (or, rather, him) as some kind of abstract force is that if, like most g...

Since some of the following sounds unlikely and Other Men's Flowers is sometimes suspected of adopting a less than serious attitude to t...

The Olympic Games opened last Wednesday with the Women's Association Football tournament. FIFA , which governs women's football as w...

Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times , though still dressed up as a serious broadsheet, is actually a pale imitation of Hello! , largely concer...

While spending a few days in Rutland last week (now there's an opening phrase to entrance the reader!) we had an excellent dinner in a p...

I have always thought that Zoroastrianism has never really caught on in England—except, of course, in North Devon and parts of Dorset—large...

More recycled posts from 2004: sport The unsavoury Olympic "movement" people Who is this man? words "Mug" means a lot o...

A day rarely goes by now without the press quoting, as if it were news, some inane pronouncement on the subjects under dispute within the od...

The great Anglican debate does drag on so, doesn't it? Whether or not God hates gays and Jesus doesn't want women dispensing the blo...

It was hardly surprising that Radovan Karadzic should have spent the last few years making a living from alternative medicine, for he was sa...

One of the Psycho Buildings in the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery (until 25th August) is a cinema, or rather what the creator, Slovenian ...