Other Men's Flowers

More recycled posts from 2005: hats God bless her, and all who sail in her words Carelessness in the OED personal A happy parting i...

Anyone who visits the internet knows that a large proportion of what you find there is garbage, and sometimes dangerous: get involved in it ...

One of the nastiest columns in the increasingly rabid Sunday Times is written by one Rod Liddle and consists mainly of cheap sneers targete...

It is difficult to see why the faithful are so unhappy about Dr Craig Venter's attempt to play at God by creating life. I mean, anyone w...

This is how Horace Rumpole referred to his wife (she called him 'Rumpole'); John Mortimer took the title from H. Rider Haggard's...

Towards the end of last year there was a letter published in Private Eye with the writer's name adding a final note. This has evoked a ...

I sleep very well, on the whole. When anxious, or dreading the next day, I can usually do as Winston Churchill recommended: "Turn out t...

...and into uncharted waters, I shouldn't wonder. Anyway, it might be worth watching tomorrow. Usually we get bored with election night ...

Here is an update to two earlier posts: Sugar Pills and Magic Water on the NHS , in which I described the Early Day Motion proposed by the M...

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...