The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Last Christmas, I went to see the pantomime of Dick Whittington and His Cat at the Bristol Hippodrome. And very funny it was too: I even f...

What religion is the pope? Put another way, what metaphysical creed does the pontiff subscribe to? What are the theological underpin...

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By the way -- I thought I ought to point out that little small postings (like this one for example) don't get charged for on Patreon. My...

It is all the more remarkable that A. A. Milne, so great an admirer of this excellent book [The Wind in the Willows] should have p...

I: In which everybody eats their hats. II: Note, for the edification of people in the United States and other non cricket playing nati...

XI: Survivors The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let ...

X: Mad Men The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Groucho Marx (and others) The Tories w...

IX: "Values" In an interview on Newsnight, Keir Starmer (who has sensibly decided that he doesn't want to be the one resi...

VIII: On Pizzas and Penguins Tony Blair has a special relationship with the English language. He wrote a short essay in the Guardia...