Category Postcards from Palookaville

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3-10 to Yuma

This morning, my PA (knowing my love of Westerns) told me that a `new’ Western is about to come out, starring Russell Crowe (is that how you spell it?) and some guy of whom I have never heard.  The title? …

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Lured out of hiding

OK.  The temptation to emerge from my lair proves too great.  I must say, helping Delboy out is insufficient reason (haven’t the English spent the last 600 years selflessly protecting the Welsh from harm at great expense to the English…

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Lured out of hiding

OK.  The temptation to emerge from my lair proves too great.  I must say, helping Delboy out is insufficient reason (haven’t the English spent the last 600 years selflessly protecting the Welsh from harm at great expense to the English…

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History is history?

In Britain, the History A-level (for non-UK people, that’s the specialised exam in history which you can opt to take at age 18) is to be scrapped.  The subject is, apparently, too difficult and too irrelevant. A shame — history…

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History is history?

In Britain, the History A-level (for non-UK people, that’s the specialised exam in history which you can opt to take at age 18) is to be scrapped.  The subject is, apparently, too difficult and too irrelevant. A shame — history…

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Apology

I do apologise for the insensitive way in which I brought to the attention of European readers the existence of aerosol cheese.  While America has provided many great cultural benefits to the world (The Rockford Files, Walker, Texas Ranger), I…