The defence "don't you know who I am?" can misfire when everyone does, indeed, know who you are. (View Post)

Barbra. (View Post)

Indeed. On the principle that I had two parents, four grand-parents and eight great-grand-parents it's fairly easy to demonstrate that the world's population at the time of the Pharaohs was… (View Post)

Half an inch of snow in north London, prompting a string of gutter press stories entitled "my granny's covid blizzard nightmare", and a mild enquiry in a Telegraph op ed as to whether,… (View Post)

Bob Dole was a relic of an era when almost every presidential hopeful was a four-letter word. My favourite anecdote of the time was the lady who said "in my heart I want Bush, in my bush I want … (View Post)