Other Men's Flowers

We face many years of austerity, and savage cuts in support for many of our cherished institutions will be necessary to ensure the survival ...

Most Englishmen have no problem in meeting with with Triumph and Disaster, and are fully aware not only that the female of the species is m...

Austria has long been regarded as a reactionary society, so it is splendid news than an Austrian man has, after a three-year struggle, won t...

Last month the Sunday Times published a two-page article in which Lord Snowdon and his son Viscount Linley paid extravagant compliments to e...

In a speech delivered at the LSE , Malcom Turnbull gives an Australian's view of China and refers to the assumption by Americans they wi...

The first is an Effect , the second and third are Laws and the fourth is a Response : all these are familiar to users of the internet. They...

Tonight, Other Men's Flowers marches (staggers? crawls?) into its ninth year, having since January 2004 amassed (garnered? spewed?) 347,...

This batch is intended to provide a refuge for those who find festivities and the current news equally depressing: not one of the questions ...

As long ago as 2004, a survey of the religious beliefs of 10,000 people in ten countries showed that the UK was among the most secular nati...

...it's an insult to send them: it shows that you can't be bothered to select a card appropriate to the recipient, write in it, put ...

It's not surprising that very few of the posts in OMF evoke any comments. The explanation could be that its most assiduous readers are...

Either the questions are getting easier or standards of erudition and culture are rising; those who say they got ten right are not necessar...

...to cartoonist David Langdon. I posted some of his cartoons in 2009 to wish him a happy 95th birthday and now comes the sad news that he d...

My CV (which can be found by going  HERE and scrolling down), includes one item of which I always been particularly proud. This, the second...

There is a TV series running at the moment called Death in Paradise . It is described as a comedy drama but is in fact not in the least funn...

Under this title The Washington Post has offered, every week since 1993, a wordplay contest , "an irreverent mix of highbrow and lowbr...

These annual awards are a means of dishonouring each year's most outstanding enemy of reason; winners in previous years have included Sa...

One reason for not liking Hallowe'en much is that its feeble modern version has been imported from America (never mind about Walpurgisna...

The mixture as before :  questions suited to people with ragbag minds. Some of the questions are dreary, some obscure and some merely silly...