You see, in a single week this draughty archipelago has become host to the Big Time. Not only patronised by god’s gift to the monarchy, we have been graced by the EU finance mob trying to raise a tax on bank transactions – which the PM, Mrs Kinnock can’t agree with or disagree with. No change there then. But best of all the EDL are in the Second City, Århus, to ….. well, to demonstrate. Not sure why, except that an islamist group plans to object.
Let’s hope it’s all jaw, jaw; not war, war.
Zis gives ‘er great plaisir, n’est-ce pas?
Two Presidents discuss – what? (The other one is South Korea’s Lee Myung-Bak.)
They’re on a 4-day state visit to Denmark, here being greeted by the Danish Crown Prince and his Tasmanian wife, Mary
In case you didn’t notice Joachim Gauck is the new President of Germany
Here is hoping we will now see an end to that dreadful phrase pairing. The crown lies elsewhere.
Nicolulla, pictured here with a recent squeeze, is the son of a Hungarian immigrant and a French mother of Greek-Jewish origin, was baptised a Roman Catholic and grew up in Paris, and is now married to an Italo-Brazilian. Glass houses and stones came to mind when he identified an excess of foreigners as the root of France’s woes. Continue reading “Too many foreigners”
Euthanasia is a favourite essay topic for students. Some probably think it’s the name of an exotic flower they’ve trodden on some time. Others will simply argue it is a good thing, given their own youth and the ‘remote’ prospect of terminal illness. Its relevance expands with age, I’ve found, and these days I’m not so sure it’s wrong (ethically, I mean). Whether it is practical socially is quite another isssue. Continue reading “Brave old world?”
I do like large-scale surveys, don’t you? They are fodder for every kind of evil logic and this one is no exception:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17196110
On the basis of its findings, I’m sure it’s best to be white and retired. Continue reading “Happy, darling?”
Nicolulla (r) shoots the breeze with selected undersized butchers
Boadicea's Chariot 
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