Category: A’s Assortment

WE ARE constantly being urged these days to eat less meat because this will supposedly halt climate change by cutting greenhouse gases. Farm animals get a major chunk of the … Continue readingSave the planet – munch a termite

IF YOU you ever had a suspicion that your licence fee was being wasted, this should reassure you. Yes, our deranged Auntie, the Beast in the Attic at Broadcasting House, … Continue readingWho’d dare come out as straight in Broadcasting House?

WHEN Neil Kinnock pranced on to the stage at a Labour election rally in 1992, punching the air and shouting ‘We’re awraaat!’ in an American accent, I thought that I … Continue readingThat Maybot Moment

THIS week my wife and I have watched with increasing incredulity a BBC programme named The Great British Menu, in which chefs vie to reach the finals and cook for … Continue readingIn the worst possible taste

HOT news from New York is that New Zealand’s Labour prime minister Jacinda Ardern turned up at the United Nations assembly with her new must-have accessory – three-month-old daughter Neve … Continue readingThe babe-in-arms race

The Times reports, with an apparent straight face, that ‘a mash-up of Macbeth and Othello that the director hopes will allow for a more feminist interpretation of the text is … Continue readingThe monster mash-up

ACCORDING to the Times, the University of Leicester has ordered academics to say the word ‘menopause’ three times a day. It has also created a ‘Menopause Café’ where they can … Continue readingMenopause for thought

Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself AUGUSTUS Carp is possibly the most loathsome hero in literature. He is priggish, pompous, hypocritical, a blackmailer, a sneak and a glutton, and has no … Continue readingTus is better than tin

THE greatest day of my young life was July 30, 1966, when England won the World Cup. Aged 11, I was watching my grandparents’ black-and-white TV – they had a … Continue readingThanks, lads, for turning me back into an England fan

THREE brays for Wallace the mule! Thanks to the sterling efforts of his rider, Christie McLean, the 11-year-old son of a donkey and a mare has been accepted as part … Continue readingMule be sorry . . .