Satire

Chronicles of Nadir 2: Prince Crispian - Chapter the Eighth

Webdiary - June 9, 2008 - 6:54pm

What happened to chapters 3 to 7, you ask. Well, I was discussing that with Jack the other day and I think it’s all getting away from him a bit. But just to get you back up to speed – oh yes, a little lower m’dear – I jotted down a few notes and passed them to the scribbler lad.

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Food wars

Beyond The Fringe - March 21, 2008 - 8:02pm

Here’s a novel animated history of the wars of the world satirised by food fights. An explanation for those who don’t comprehend the menu can be found here. Read more »

there's no aphrodisiac

VeniVidiBlogi - May 17, 2008 - 8:09pm

Your humble correspondent is a troubled, and increasingly somewhat pissed, soul this evening.

The news from Burma gets ever more dire, not that anyone with any understanding of the bastards that run the place should be surprised.

Returning from a semi-work function last night we were listening to the radio with some unidentified UN official giving a series of increasingly bureaucratic (there

gimme little sign

VeniVidiBlogi - April 6, 2008 - 10:59pm

You all know that I'm a big Jeremy Clarkson fan, but some weeks you go to the Times of LOndon and discover he's got the week off to conduct a mock crucifixion of Tony Blair, or to shoot ecologists.

On those days, you scout around the website and you might run across AA Gill. Gill does to poor restaurants what Clarkson does to Mercedes Benzes and Vauxhalls. So it's by-the-numbers sarcasm dripping