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MP for Ashton-under-Lyne and our current deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner , and, hem hem, adult entertainment performer Lauren Phillips ...

Never let it be said that Electric Halibut doesn't surf the bleeding edge of the Zeitgeist; as if to prove that point today's post i...

A couple of follow-up observations on earlier posts: Firstly, I notice that politicians continue to embarrass themselves by attempting to i...

I had an interesting exchange on Twitter earlier after I saw this tweet on my timeline, which basically makes the claim that, on the basis ...

Today's pair is Nadia Whittome , Labour MP for Nottingham East, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo . Most pictures of Kahlo have a rather se...

Today it's Theresa May's former chief of staff, advisor and election strategist Nick Timothy, and Bridget McCluskey's former c...

Middle England by Jonathan Coe. There is, I think, a reasonably convincing argument that there was a moment in 2010 when the UK's r...

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck. O-OOOOOOH-KLAHOMA where the wind comes sweeping down the plain Where the wavin' wheat can ...

Today it's legendarily suave and stylish Roxy Music front man Bryan Ferry and Leave.EU communications director Andy Wigmore. That...

There was nothing more inevitable than Jeremy Hunt's throwing his hat into the ring at the Tory leadership election resulting in yet mo...

This is a bit of an echo of a long-ago lookeylikey post about bald people; I want to make it clear that I'm trying to do something a bi...

One of the reasons I don't do as much blogging as I used to, in addition to the various reasons already mentioned elsewhere, is that t...

It's a few days late for the official anniversary but let me commemorate the 70th birthday of the National Health Service by appointing...

By my reckoning no-one's called Jeremy Hunt (or anyone else) a cunt on live TV or radio for just over a year. Well, that run ended today...

Ex-CEO of ExxonMobil and, as of his unexpected (to him at least) firing yesterday , ex-US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and former show...

Hey, there was a general election recently. You might have missed it, so here are a couple of snippets. What I'm going to try and do is ...

Leader of the Labour Party and thereby Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, and the Wise Old Elf from the splen...

I've got two for you today. Firstly, presenter of CBeebies science-y programme Do You Know? (one of Nia's current favourite things)...

Couple of follow-up notes on previous posts: It appears that virginity auctions are still a thing, or at least still a thing that people ...

So, Brexit, then. And while it's awfully tempting to dismiss the 52% of the UK population who voted to leave the European Union as just ...