The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Oh, and while we're here: another gem from Mr Boden . This was the sort of happy story Victorians used to sing around the piano, appare...

Last Folkwaves Ever

Now you're just being silly....

You really need to read Kevin Arscott's essay on the Winterval Myth . It's 40+ pages long, and you have to download it as a PDF. It...

By now, everybody knows about the Winterval myth. Local government is notoriously unpopular in the UK. While our income tax magically vanis...

But, of course, language is sometimes used to create a consensus were no consensus in fact exists.  If I describe someone as "a black ...

I think that people originally objected to Political Correctness because they felt that language was being used to create a consensus where ...

You can't read about the Political Correctness conspiracy for very long before coming across the following "joke". "Poli...

Some people think that "A" level exams are now so easy that an "A" grade is almost without value. Some people think...

In principal, the former Soviet Union claimed not to censor the press. If a senior figure in the Party slipped over on a banana skin, the st...

Jon Boden singing Jingle Bells. What more need be said?

Some regular readers may have spotted that, in the last couple of years, I have developed a passing interest in English folk music. This is ...

  We should actively celebrate the Christian basis of Christmas, and not allow politically correct Grinches to marginalise Christianity an...

(from Private Eye) Show of Hands 29 Nov 2010 Colston Hall "At every trough you stop to feed..." sings Steve Knightley. "W...