In the eternal hierarchy of ways in which people make fools of themselves, the position of sex is at least as illustrious as those of religion and politics, and therefore no rational intelli… Read More
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Curses and Mudgeonry for a Happier Britain
Midway between All Hallows' Eve and the rah-rah over the torture and execution of a failed parliamentary reformer means, of course, that the corporate calendar is at least half-way through t… Read More
Art thieves, loosely speaking, have blasted their way into a Dutch gallery and stolen some Andy Warhol manufactures. The pieces belong to a series of garishly retouched official photographs… Read More
Difficult as it may be to believe given the robust state of reality around all matters concerning the US presidential election, it eppears that one of the candidates may have said the thing… Read More
Private sector efficiency has made itself felt in the provinces, where testimony from a rail company operating somewhere north of Westminster has made an extraordinary committee meeting slig… Read More
After only a little more than a year of ethnic cleansing and international aggression, and civilian casualties barely in excess of forty thousand lives, one or two bastions of the free world… Read More
As has been demonstrated by the vote for independence from the beastly Euro-wogs, and the continuing disinclination to resume even a modified market share of the Strasbrussels yoke, there ar… Read More
Just as there are still media workers who persuade themselves that the operative word in capitalist journalism is journalism, it appears there are still health workers who delude themselves… Read More
He loves you and He needs money!
George Carlin
Executives at the French branch of Vatican Incorporated are aflame with moral indignation at proposals to charge an entry fee at the restored… Read More
Newspapers owned by two of the Trumpster's fellow squillionaires have decided that the choice between business as usual and out-and-out fascism is just too damn difficult. Both the Washingto… Read More
Some little time ago in this Mother of Democracies, a by-election was held in which both candidates came from the same inordinately privileged class of society, and in which the only genuine… Read More
Good old colonial values are alive and well in Australia, where the leader of the charmingly misnamed Liberal party has urged stiffer wog control measures for uppity aboriginals. An independ… Read More
In keeping with Team Starmer's juvenile domestic policy (someone maxed out Auntie Rachel's credit card, and that's why jolly Uncle Wes is brandishing that hypodermic) and infantile foreign p… Read More
Although the Christian state of Texas has been zealous in the crusade to keep young readers pure for Jesus, in the seventeen months before last December the realm of Ronald of the Saints ban… Read More
Our first hundred-odd days of tough decisions for working people have been graced with two notable schemes for saving the NHS. One is the deployment of "advisers" to chivvy sufferers of seve… Read More
Following its recent near-reset of Conservative policy vis à vis the beastly Euro-wogs, Team Starmer is set for further diplomatic triumphs in the Caribbean, where the master ra… Read More
Conservative politicians have long been known for loving not wisely but too well, and the helpmeat of a West Northamptonshire councillor has done her part in continuing this charming sentime… Read More
In previous works Nicole Cushing has provided spectacular visions of the Pit ("The Orchard of Hanging Trees", The Sadist's Bible) and blackly humorous accounts of depression and depersonalis… Read More
As befits a Christian, his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has come out against the legalisation of assisted dying. He came out in the Rothermere Daily Stürmer, which shoul… Read More
Ethnic cleansing is all very well provided that it's done by the nice people; but even the most sensible and moderate of observers would be hard put to deny that it can still cause a bit of… Read More
In the good old days, mental health conditions and neurodiversity and all that sort of thing were dealt with Britishly and on an individual level by working hard, playing by the rules and be… Read More
Although Team Starmer has repeatedly proclaimed that it wishes to reset relations with the beastly Euro-wogs to the extent of toning down the rah-rah as much as Conservative policy will allo… Read More
Some bits and pieces in Seville have been confirmed as the remains of a migrant whose lawless and immoral ways brought disaster to both the American people and his own. His arrival in the US… Read More
There was a time when the visitations of Hurricanes Milton and Helene upon the Christian state of Florida would have been considered symptoms of divine judgement: a reminder that the abortio… Read More
Theatre-goers in Stuttgart have been gagging for medical attention after witnessing a gory mutilation of a 1921 Hindemith opera. Despite warnings of content including sexual violence and lou… Read More
In keeping with the current status of British public office as a networking opportunity, a former Minister for Wog-Bombing has availed himself of the chance to invest in the neglected aspect… Read More
Visitations of the Muse are strange and unpredictable events; Stephen King, with characteristic delicacy, once compared the process to a gremlin evacuating its bowels on his head. I am usual… Read More
Although Labour may have abandoned the twenty-nine-billion climate pledge on the grounds that it was a pledge, that doesn't mean there is no more money; oh dear me no. In the accustomed Team… Read More
Astoundingly enough considering the pure and pristine conduct of the profteering sector in every other enterprise from moisture provision through infantine shelf-stacker training to the fair… Read More
Team Starmer's plans to impose VAT on education profiteering are ghastly and awful and horrid and have caused a fall in registration numbers even before being definitively watered down. Team… Read More
For patriotic Britons who don't know what it's like to live in a society of masters and servants whose rulers would rather bury their wealth than distribute it, the project must be about the… Read More
Faith in British politics looks set to be sensibly, moderately and forensically restored with the CEO of Team Starmer condescending to repay a full six per cent of the value of all the bungs… Read More
Marriage in the eyes of the Vatican is of course a holy institution, provided that it takes place exclusively between pairs of heterosexuals to the accompaniment of the correct magic words… Read More
A district court judge in the USA has confessed himself in some doubt as to what sentence should be imposed upon an octogenarian rancher for the crime of creating unauthorised hunting sheep… Read More
Readers of a certain age may recall the Spycatcher affair, wherein the memoir of a retired MI5 officer received some welcome worldwide publicity thanks to the Thatcher government's attempt t… Read More
Despite a decade of Hindu nationalist government under the pious Narendra Modi, it seems that the gods remain unsatisfied. A season of maternal fasting and cleansing for the good fortune of… Read More
In accordance with the best British values, to say nothing of the God of Exodus and some other well-known comedies, Israel has launched airstrikes into Lebanon, killing the leader of Hezboll… Read More
Contrary to all expectation, it appears that certain fossil fuel companies have been saying the thing that is not about their transition to renewable energy. By "transition," of course, I me… Read More
Patriots will rejoice to find Britishness as rampant as ever in the moisture profiteering industry, one of whose largest members is celebrating the arrival of the rainy season in a manner be… Read More
Despite the personal intervention of Baby Jesus in saving the Trumpster and his head-tribble from the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, it appears that faith may sti… Read More
There are few more reliable indications of an urge towards political change than sticking to the policies of the predecessor one claims to be a change from. The fresh-faced troops of Team St… Read More
First
they went for Gaza,
and I did not stop arming them
because they always went for Gaza.
Then
they went for the West Bank,
and I did not stop arming them
because there isn't much profit… Read More
An extract
Once upon a time a learned man sat in his study, surrounded on all sides by leathery books and yellowed papers, while the fire cackled and sniggered in the grate, and his shadow… Read More
An American Tale
Forty miles from the next town it happened again, and this time even Busby felt the extra weight. He swore and hit the steering wheel with his blistered fist. "Another one?… Read More
Just when British independence from the Strasbrussels yoke was going so well, at least one crusader for taking back control has suffered further martyrdom at the hands of the beastly Euro-wo… Read More
Immoderate and unsensible persons have calculated that taxing toy ocean liners and private jets would bring in more revenue than letting pensioners freeze or perpetuating child poverty. Natu… Read More
A Manchester theatre has cancelled a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, partly because of technical problems but also because of a song offensively shaded with references to Gaza and t… Read More
Even the most virtuous actions cannot always be carried out to absolute perfection, and it seems that the slaughter of a few tens of thousands of adult and infant Hamas operatives has been a… Read More
High-school pupils in southern Los Angeles have been privileged to undergo one of God's favourite tests of faith, with the discovery of marine fossil sites underneath their campus. As is wel… Read More