Aunt Agatha gives some wise career counselling
Dear “Switcher,” No. You need a new career because you obviously have no future in politics since your current party lies second in only 37 seats. I know you are getting on, but your onetime colleague...
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See something, say nothing, do nothing:how the Grauniad became the Girthiad
Four decades ago, the Guardian newspaper dared not defy its then-powerful printsetting unions – so its morning editions often had unfortunate typos. Sometimes these were spotted by journalists at what...
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Dear “Barmier than most,” I sympathize. It must be dreadful for a eurocrat of your breeding and position to have to deal with ordinary people like the British. However, their great weakness is that...
View ArticleThinking outside the box
According to its website the responsibilities of the Scottish government include the economy, education, health, justice, rural affairs, housing, environment, equal opportunities, consumer advocacy and...
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Pro-tip: Don’t hold your hands behind your back when you’re taking a photo with a group of coppers. – PC Dave Wise
View ArticleRelentlessly mocking the SJWs
Blogger David Thompson suggests that his round-up of the year might be of interest to Samizdata’s readers. His email to me quoted how this roundup begins: The year began on a highbrow note as the...
View ArticleTwo stars from the Guardian
Here’s Lucy Mangan’s review of Brexit: The Uncivil War: Brexit: The Uncivil War review – superficial, irresponsible TV In an era besieged by misinformation, it was the duty of the makers of this...
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The Joke and the Reality
April Fool’s day is the day to tell a story that seems real but is in fact a joke. Yesterday was the day when a joke became astonishingly real for me. Sunday morning, I was casually shown this picture...
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There’s sufficient evidence that Stanley Kubrick directed the fake moon landing film, but being a perfectionist he did it on location. – Runcie Balspune
View ArticleHow to hand in your resignation
I thought about putting this in The Great Realignment, but the link to politics is slight. This is more about fantasy fulfilment. Have you ever dreamed of telling a bad boss what you think of him? Have...
View ArticleRicky Gervais, the best man at a wedding who shouts out “Don’t marry, mate!”
Ricky Gervais’s opening comments at the Golden Globes in Hollywood (I assume he is not doing them ever again) are rightly being lauded around the non-PC parts of the internet/media world for telling...
View ArticleTitania McGrath takes to the stage
Whilst the British ‘comedy’ circuit has long been the preserve of the Left, events have taken a dramatic turn as Titania McGrath, radical socialist, feminist, intersectionalist, Twitter SJW par...
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FYI, the death rate of COVID-19 among men is about 60% higher than among women. As there are no biological differences between men and women, I conclude this is entirely due to our inability in our...
View ArticleHow would she know?
“I will not be slienced.” (Greta Thunberg in Bristol) How would she know? Indeed, how would we know? It savours less of English understatement that of pointed irony to say that noone has tried to...
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Is his name Dracula?
Allegheny County, home to the city of Pittsburgh, has been hit with a lawsuit over irregularities on its voter rolls, including dead voters, duplicate registrants, and one registered voter marked as...
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PC Savage – paladin of wokespeech
Oxford’s UNWomen society gave its name a new meaning by no-platforming Amber Rudd last Thursday. Student Nadia Awad “highlighted Ms Rudd’s reference to Labour’s Diane Abbott as a “coloured” woman...
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Seid umschlungen, Millionen! Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! Be embraced, Millions! This kiss to all the world! – Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy, Beethoven’s setting of which is the Anthem of Europe. Sing...
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