You may think Prince Harry is accident prone. After all, it was only a year or so ago that he thought it was a wheeze to dress up in Nazi uniform and parade before the cameras. Now, just before he...
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This is a guy called Jack of Bibbi and here he is setting the world record for holding rattlesnakes in his bare teeth. Any idea why he wears the hat? I can't count these, but here suggests 10?
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I understand the US Defence Secretary nominee, Robert Gates gave up his job as the president of a Texas University to step into Rumsfeld's shoes. There must have been a large faculty there in stating the bleedin' obvious. During his...
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Yesterday on the Today Programme, I heard an American who was described as the US Ambassador to NATO. I had no idea who she was. Her function seemed to be taking the begging bowl round for more European troops to...
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Anyone that wants to see just how daft the Windsors can really get, should watch the interview with Princess Beatrice-daughter of Fergie and Prince Andrew, on BBC TV news. It's not on the website yet, but here's hoping here "I...
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We've all seen drivers doing the daftest things whilst their cars are moving? Reading A-Zs pushed against the steering wheel, eating sandwiches and using cell phones are common enough. But last week a taxi driver drew up to my inside...
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In his speech to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles yesterday, refering to interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Tony Blair told his audience- "The point about these interventions, however, military and otherwise, is that they were not just about...
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In the annals of quantum mechanics is a thought experiment by the Austrian physicist, Erwin Schrödinger. He demonstrates the apparent absurdity of some of its theories. A box contains a live cat and a cannister of poison. It is attached...
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If this wasn’t so serious, I would be giving myself a hernia laughing. There’s the Safely Elephant who has been let out of the traps to use his Doc Martins to savage Henry Porter, Simon Carr and Jenni Russell and...
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I know we tend to grumble about the BBC. But just imagine if this is the drivel you regularly see on your news channel? On 23rd February, Fox News showed on-screen captions "upside" to civil war and all out civil...
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