Other Men's Flowers

More re-cycled posts from 2005: religion Every picture tells a story; this one’s a lulu personal The most honorific of all my titles people ...

A nice change from the Three Caballeros doing their respective unfunny stand-up routines was provided this week by the leaking of a Foreign ...

It seems very likely that on the morning of 7th May almost no-one will be happy with the results of the election. This does not often happen...

No 29 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century January 1911 The caption reads 'THE BATTLE OF STEPNEY: Mr Winston Ch...

Rejoice, rejoice! The long decline of the British Empire has been halted; we are no longer a laughing stock among the nations, sunk in nosta...

American authors Brett and Kate Mackay have written a book about The Art of Manliness and have included examples of manly vernacular from t...

I always like to write about spring , and, inspired by some glorious weather, I spent some time last week assembling a little spring antholo...

It would be interesting—well, fairly interesting—to know how many words we have in English to express approval or admiration. One way to fin...

No, not that Jackson. When stupid, ignorant people tell you that they believe in something very silly there's no point in arguing with t...

More re-cycled posts from 2005: news The Daily Telegraph always was a rotten newspaper, but now... personal Offensive but fair: accurate abu...

I find no mention of Julian Horsecroft in any of the news bulletins or newspapers today, and once again it looks as if the anniversary of hi...

Like all those of my generation (the one that grew up listening to ITMA every Friday), I have always kept myself at the cutting edge of tech...

In a report published last month the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons concluded that: By providing homeopathy on the...

No 28 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century August 1910: The Boltons living in Blackpool write to their son and dau...

In December 2008 the BBC reported on a repeat of the famous Milgram tests at Yale University , the results of which were published in 1968, ...

Here is a delightful essay by Max Beerbohm in which he paints a portrait of the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII. In it he t...

Over the past few weeks, my circumstances have been such that I have had to become acquainted with a number of NHS nurses. This has not been...

More re-cycled posts from 2005: people Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? TV Chelsea Flower boredom personal I was a major league bore

... or the muddied oafs at the goals. Kipling's 1902 poem The Islanders was written towards the end of the Boer War, which it calls un...