Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Harry's Bar!

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... Read more →

The Snake Man

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? Read more →

"Pearly" Gates

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... Read more →

NeoCon Lickspittle?

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... Read more →

Just like My Old Ma-Ma.

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... Read more →

Portable Clippers!

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... Read more →

What about WMD Tony?

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... Read more →

Black, White and the Austrian Cat!

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... Read more →

They just slipped through my fingers Sarge!

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... Read more →

Fox News

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... Read more →