The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

They're selling postcards of the hanging.... Killing is easy. Third and fourth fingers on your palm, first and second sticking out, poin...

The Emperor Nero has expressed regret at the manner in which a Christian was eaten by lions. "I would have like Androcles to have been ...

“What’s that so black agin’ the sun?” said Files-on-Parade. “It’s Danny fightin’ ’ard for life”, the Colour-Sergeant said. “What’s that that...

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owe...

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my good i...

Private Eye Cover: Happy Noose Year

The morning wind began to moan, But still the night went on: Through its giant loom the web of gloom Crept till each thread was spun: And, a...

'I am sorry," said Frodo , 'But I am frightened, and I do not feel any pity for Gollum ' 'You have not seen him,' G...

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for school-boys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one ...

I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning cou...

The British government does not support the use of the death penalty, in Iraq or anywhere else. We advocate an end to the death penalty worl...