Now look.  There are fools.  There are total fools. There are dribbling half-wits. And then there are these guys:     OK.  Let's think this through.  Say you're Jewish, or [...]

Who's Saint Urban of Langres? He's the patron saint of alcoholics, that's who. I stumbled across this piece of nonsense while digitally thumbing through a list of patron saints on [...]

Well, Bertie is finally going before the Tribunal to explain how he was given a pile of money and a house by his builder friends while he was Minister for [...]

I wasn't going to write about this. I just wasn't because it doesn't bear thinking about, but in the last few days the whole thing has become insane, and you [...]

They had a policeman on the radio yesterday, about new equipment for the cops. Newish equipment. He was talking about the new extensible baton for our cops. That's right. The [...]

The chimeras are back. Human-animal hybrids shuffling and grunting their way through the blasted ruins of Old Europe, in search of the few surviving Makers. When a man is dragged [...]

Here's a question for you: what popular food item has absolutely no nutritional value, contributes nothing at all to your health or wellbeing, is entirely unnecessary, pollutes your environment and [...]

What? I asked myself. Did I really hear that? I'd been listening to the excellent Paddy O Gorman on the radio. He does this thing where he talks to people [...]

It's like this. You needn't expect anything sensible out of me for the next while. The minute Wrinkly Joe appears, I'm heading for town to watch the hurling on a [...]