A Suspension of Belief.
Today the eyes of a large part of the nation were affixed on their TV screens watching the wedding of…
Month: April 2011
Woe, woe and thrice woe!
Above is the character, “Senna the Soothsayer” played by Jeanne Mockford in the BBC sit-com “Up Pompeii” which ran between…
The Carbon Tax: A poem by Professor Cliff Ollier.
Hurrah, Hurrah the Carbon Tax Just pay up and then relax. We’ll stop warming, have no fears, (Maybe take a…
Robin Garbutt and the “standard” tariff for murder.
The tariff of 20 years passed on Robin Garbutt convicted yesterday of the murder of his wife Diana, raise the…
The Past is a Foreign Country: They do things differently there.
The days of the friendly “copper” as portrayed by the actor Jack Warner (insert above) in the BBC TV drama…
The Royal Wedding: Dignified or What?
Above is a very amusing advert by T Mobile, a spoof of the upcoming wedding of Wills and Kate. Enjoy.…
Messrs. Brown & Darling: Beware ye sins shall find thee out.
In our article, Which of these men can you trust? of the12th April, we disclosed our interest (as a shareholder)…
The Mau Mau Oath.
British Gazette readers may have heard that some former members of the Kenyan resistance group the Mau Mau are taking…
Which of these men can you trust?
The answer is the man on the left, Sir Winfred Bischoff. Sir Winfred Bischoff is the Chairman of the Lloyds…
Pay More, Get Less: the Government’s energy policy.
The above tranquil scene – a fitting name for this stretch of water must be the Sea of Tranquillity –…