June is now here, which means the annual Silly Season of nonsensical filler stories in the media should soon be upon us, as all the proper journalists jet away on their summer vacations. This year, though, the whole thing got started a whole month early, with the following amazing scoop being ...
Forget the War of Jenkins’ Ear; we once nearly had a Conflict of Claudia’s Tits. A state of jihad was narrowly averted between infidel France and the entire Islamic ummah in 1994 when the notably Nordic-looking blond German supermodel Claudia Schiffer was sent out onto a Paris catwalk wearing a ...
The late, great, anti-immigration British politician Enoch Powell, when once asked by a barber how he would like to have his hair cut, is alleged to have replied, “In silence.” In this, as in so many other matters, Enoch was right. When most people visit their local barbershop or hair salon, ...
The Premier League football (as in “soccer”) season has just ended, with the title of champions of England 2024/25 going to the team I support, Liverpool FC, whose star Egyptian forward-cum-winger, Mohamed Salah, has also ended up with the Golden Boot award for the competition’s top scorer. ...
The problem of loneliness seems to be growing. New research demonstrates many gardeners these days have a more intimate relationship with the blooms in their borders, rockeries, pots, and window boxes than they do with most other actual humans. A newly publicized Australian study has claimed that ...
I didn’t sense much enthusiasm for the formal 80th-anniversary celebrations of VE Day across Britain last week, at least not amongst the young. How to combat this alarming apathy? Over in America, Donald Trump has just tried rebranding it with the new U.S.-centric name of “Victory Day for World ...
Strange news from the Czech Republic (or Czechia, or Czech-Land, or World of Czechs, or whatever the place has decided to call itself this month), where a colony of beavers have just built themselves some dams in the Vltava River Basin. This doesn’t sound like it should really be news at all, ...
This week marks eighty years since the death of Mussolini on 28 April 1945. All the more surprising, then, that he is currently Italy’s reigning Man of the Year. The prestigious honor was bestowed by right-wing Italian newspaper Libero, which placed Musso’s image proudly on its front page on ...
When I was still a boy, there was a saying, now rather out of fashion, used by critics to blast politicians or other figures of authority whenever they had formulated yet another foolish policy, to the effect that “Next they’ll be wanting to bring back Hitler!” As Easter Sunday this year ...
