From the sublime to the ridiculous! Or is that from the ridiculous to the sublime? For a blog with a domain name and server located within the USA, it behoves the BG to comment upon…
A nation led by idiots! Above, a brace of British Army issue pistols – old (right) and new (left). Today, in the Northern Hemisphere, is…
There’s an awful lot of oil in Brazil! If you should shiver, think only this of us: That there’s some corner of a foreign oil field That is…
Now is the winter of our discontent?????? One of the things I pay attention to when writing a blog-post is the title. It has to be catchy.…
A little help from my friends! Those of us Britons who can recall the summer of 1967 will doubtless recall the Beatles hit, “With A Little…
Partying (NOT NOW!) before the lights go out! Above: Vicky Michelle of the sit-com “All Allo”: it is unlikely to be screened again – as it will be…
News Flash: It’s PC Johnson of New Palace Yard! The mainstream media is much criticised. This is because, like the office of Prime Minster of the United Kingdom, it…
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well. It were done quickly:” These famous words spoken by Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Act 1, Scene 7 form the title of today’s BG blog-post in…
The Kingdom of the Ugly Sisters. It is coming to that time of year when parents and grandparents take their excited children to the pantomime. In…
Paddling to Paradise. Above: Two contrasting visions (Utopia or Dystopia) of the UK’s future. The recent deaths of migrants in the English Channel…