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I’m slack-jawed with amazement at the number of times I find myself slack-jawed with amazement. The other day a horse rider, upset because my dog’s barking startled her nag when she rode it past our home, told me I should try a shock collar on my mutt. In other words, I should deliver electric shocks […]

I’ve been banging on for some time now, as the bishop said to the actress, about change in the air. To the soundtrack of thousands of new age hippies all over the world chanting in whiny voices and pitching tents in unlikely places, I’ve suggested there is a climate for change in this climate-changed world, […]

Some time ago a friend rang and said: “Have you heard? They’re making a new film about Margaret Thatcher…” “Great!” I said. Just what we need. A hard-hitting documentary drawing a line once and for all under an era of mass cultural and societal vandalism perpetrated in the cause of great personal wealth for a […]

I’m going to share a confession with you. There is a part of my body, a small part, with which I am far from happy. It is not big enough. It’s sort of dumpy, and bent a bit at the end. People have been known to laugh at it. I wish I had a bigger, […]

We’ve all heard or uttered the phrase, or something like the phrase, “I’m going to put my foot through the screen…” It’s said of laptops, TVs, mobiles. Well, I know somebody who put two shotgun cartridges through his screen. (No names, no pack drill, but private applicants will find I will willingly grass up the […]