Other Men's Flowers

...was founded by Edward III in 1348 to fulfil a vow made at the end of the Great Windsor Tournament of 1344. Its foundation legend is prob...

George Orwell wrote a famous essay with this title sixty-three years ago. Our political concerns are different from those of 1946 and the p...

After leaving home briefly to take a satisfactory if not particularly enjoyable break in the Arctic wastes of Sussex, I have returned to a c...

More recycled posts from 2005: francophilia A Frenchman demonstrates his mastery of demotic English politics Well said, though not quite as ...

"I'd say loosen his flies but who listens to sex therapists?" Arnold Frederick Wiles, Punch, 1982

For a week or two Other Men's Flowers will contain only a few pre-scheduled posts with no comments allowed.

No, not really. Sadly, it is unlikely that even the looniest of the faithful will launch an action against the atheists who have published a...

More recycled posts from 2005: food Throdkins enter cyberspace! people John Mills, a convincing swine music A rotten singer, much loved

Young Richard Whittington has a prophetic nightmare of the way posterity will picture him George Morrow, Punch 1925

They said that before they give me an ARR next month I must go and see the anaesthetist to find out whether he would be likely to do me any ...

It gave me quite a frisson when I realised that the alleged perpetrator of yesterday's attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines ...

" Here I come, children! Look, no beard this year!"

They had told me that while you are having an MRI scan they can play you music to relieve the tedium; you can choose from their library or b...

More recycled posts from 2005: personal How to fail at your chosen career words Dr Johnson was surly but may have been lovable poetry The wo...

My initiative in making a telephone call sparked off an unusual encounter I had one night last week. A young Japanese woman answered and ask...

No 26 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century August 1909: The writer of this card quotes See the conquering hero come...

As we all know, you have to be careful not to be misled by what you find on the internet. I have just become involved professionally with a ...

More recycled posts from 2005: cinema Some movies get history right, others don't royals Vox pop on the Prince's nuptials hats Dress...

There's still time to get some copies of this for your friends; for anyone who ever goes outdoors and looks upwards it is a nice presen...

I started making comments—friendly, mocking, complimentary, contentious or ribald—on other peoples' blogs soon after I started writing m...