I wasn’t around and missed this pearl (Sky < Mr G < IRQ; Southampton:Portsmouth::Army:Navy, as I well remember): “Umm Qasr is a town similar to Southampton”, UK Defence Minister Geoff Hoon told the House of Commons yesterday. “He’s either never been to Southampton, or he’s never been to Umm Qasr”, said one British soldier, informed…
Bilbo Hague seems to think the forces of freedom won the last one, despite Barraco Barner tracking my every move in ways the Stasi wouldn’t have dared dream of. Why, only yesterday I was out in my dinghy when. I did actually vote once, in local elections in The Hague, for the “green-left” (but actually…
Check out the man we’re now allowed to call Marcus. Several bits of the UDI equation still missing: fuel, weaponry, cyberstuff. In those Russia is our natural friend: apart from the Ukraine business, the path mapped out by CDC and approved of more or less by the rest of the loonies is Mussolini/Putin-style corporativism, a…
Here: I offered drinks. Someone asked for a gin and tonic. I turned to the cunt. “Same for you?” He reacted much as if I had said, “Glass of baby’s blood?” The Ali G interview is also great, whether you’re a fan of TB or not:
Most films are too slow and long, so play everything double speed (without transposing up an octave) and watch multiplex gate receipts soar. You won’t sell twice the popcorn, but refreshment consumption will rise as well because it is in part a function of plot structure. I watch a lot of films faster and with…
Reading the Daily Mail’s heartfelt tribute it’s clear that this must be no ordinary farewell – perhaps the railroad equivalent of a Norse ship burial, a blazing, gilded train speeding (or not) into a black hole, with an echo of Gerardo Diego’s Llanura: Hay un temblor de unisonos en la llanura estrellada de escondrijos Como…
Here. I’d been vaguely considering, because flying like a bird is not yet an option, and because trains booked less than 30 years in advance between the UK and Spain seemed to cost as much as a dog kennel in Hackney. But Deutsche Bahn, unlike the bloody French and Spanish, also shows you the cheaper…
