"Your wife, sir, under the pretense of keeping a bawdy house, is a receiver of stolen goods." Well, it was considered frightfully amusing in Johnson's day. Wouldn't be original no… (View Post)

I went to watch the result with some Labour-supporting friends so I thought I ought to take a bottle of champagne. At 2am I said "shall we drink it, anyway?". Dirty looks all round. (View Post)

I conducted a similar survey in England a few years ago and came up with a figure of 33%. I was for, wife and girlfriend were against. (View Post)

Jean-Louis de Lolme ... criticised the power of the British parliament and coined an expression which became proverbial: "parliament can do everything but make a woman a man and a man a woman&qu… (View Post)

Thankfully I'm no longer a Middlesex member so I can hold my head high and, like St Peter, say 'nothing to do with me, mate'. All too often the best part of a day out at Lord's wa… (View Post)