I Intend To Escape ......................And Come Back

For St George's Day

It sometimes takes an Irishman to remind us of our greatness. Discussing books, the Count states:

"Through them I have come to know your great England; and to know her is to love her."

Bram Stoker, Dracula.

Call 999 - I need a hijab and a prayer mat!

In Carry On Again Doctor, Dr Ernest Stoppidge (Charles Hawtrey) famously stated that he did not object to jiggery, but takes exception to pokery! I do not object to either, but I draw the line at wokery, and unfortunately there is a lot of it about.

On Wednesday the Daily Express published my latest on that bastion of wokeness, the police force, and in particular the pride West Midlands police take in officers driving around Birmingham with prayer mats and hijabs in their patrol vehicles (?).
While citizens of Gotham City used to put up the bat signal at times of distress in order to alert Batman and Robin, perhaps in Moseley the West Midlands Police logo will be projected in the skies when someone needs a hijab to be urgently delivered?

You can read the article online here, and a pdf is available below.

Download The police are taking the public for granted by indulging in wokery _ Express Comment 10 04 2024

When football was football

I always rather liked Joe Kinnear, who died at the weekend aged 77.

For an insight into football from another era, his obituary in The Telegraph discussed the bonus he got for winning the 1967 FA Cup final with Tottenham:

"His Cup bonus came to £2,500: he gave his mother £500, his sisters £30 and a new outfit each, bought his grandmother in Dublin a TV and an armchair, and himself a new Ford Corsair for £600. He then took his extended family for a six-week holiday in Ireland until the money ran out. “I couldn’t get rid of it quick enough,” he recalled."

While it is easy to dismiss the Kinnear of his Newcastle period as a buffoon, he managed Wimbledon to sixth spot in the top division, and two top ten finishes. Well anyone ever do that again?