Good man!

@MC Escher: I was never really a Donovan fan but – good gravy! – The Hurdy-Gurdy Man is one of the best records I’ve ever heard (had never encountered it until it was used in Britannia on Sky. A Mickie Most […]

Haven’t seen it, Gary, but I’ll try to check it out. Israel squanders far too many resources on lobbying. The nation’s already an overdog.

In re La Contessa: if Oded Fehr was supplying the sweet talk, she […]

Tahir, you’re a sound bloke but I’m not in the mood to be your whipping boy. Try some other eejit.

@Gary: come on, now. You seriously overestimate the power of the Chosen. I basically count as a one man pro-Israel lobby group because I don’t want to drive its population into the sea and I can barely persuade […]

1. I’d declare the 2016 Referendum null and void, as it was only advisory, it was wholely innapropriate, and in any case it was called by that moon-faced posh-boy twat Cameron.

A proposal to remain or leave was p […]

@Moose: after hosting the bibulous Kate and Lillian at Home Farm, those payments are essential in re-stocking the cellar with Burgundy (more accurately, the 6-bottle wine rack from Wilko that Jenny – begrudgingly […]

@Moose: I was tickled by Vulpes’ suggestion of ‘re-education’ before he settled on light bribery and a good talking to as a more apposite solution to win hearts and minds. Detainment centres scare the bejesus out of me!

@Vulpes: I’m Team Mair*. As a radio broadcaster, Farage has no ability to think on his feet and his ‘patter’ the lightness of a mahogany dining set.

*In my BBC counter-factual, Eddie still presents PM and […]

@Dave Amitri: If I recall correctly, REO’s Kevin Breslin married for love. I believe the divorce settlement would make Ray Parlour say ‘thank f*** I only have to pay out 33% of all future earnings’. If John […]

@Vulpes: While I’m tickled by the idea of gulags on UK soil, the discussion/soft furnishings option is prob the best one to take? Whatever works!

Farage is a very odd duck, indeed. I’m not sure whether his […]

@Lodestone: Casus belli is ’cause of a war’ in my fluent Poncese. In re Gary, I believe a lovelorn post-Summer Paul Hollywood is up for the next crack at the gorgeous creature. Sex with a donkey is also high on […]

Hodge’s dissent from Corbynism is a casus belli for the hard left, in the UK and further afield. It’s just gravy that Hodge isn’t a goy. The piece’s masthead only needs a hook-nosed caricature caressing a gold […]

If Margaret Beckett’s family had controversial investments during Apartheid-era South Africa, this wouldn’t be a story. Uppity Jew, Margaret Hodge? Now THAT’S a story.

Money quote: “It is time that the […]

Herself* – the Head Buck Cat, QE2 – is the only thing keeping this leaky boat afloat. When the Queen expires, the rest should shamefacedly pack their tents and get the fuck outta Dodge.

*It’s only the women in […]

Note to an unnamed pre-retirement council worker: your prudent habits of packing your own lunch in a bread wrapper and putting aside a significant tranche of your income into an investment product you describe as […]

Shot By Both Sides #3? Just by Radiohead.

@Bamber: was at that Aztec Camera show myself. First time I’d heard that cover of Jump. Was Roddy in jodphurs at the time? The gag then was whatever Roddy wore, Nick Heyward would bite and show up in the same […]

That Sara Gazarek record is still getting daily spins – albeit on Deezer Hi-Fi – chez moi.

@MikeH: there was a terrific, mainly female septet – Nerija? – on Later last week who didn’t hesitate to namecheck Tomorrow’s Warriors as a guiding force. The London scene is buggin’ out and a return visit to […]