The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Confused about your national identity? Reeling a bit after Last Night of the Proms? Wondering how George VII should style himself in a feder...

Many people think that "political correctness" means "politeness" or "inclusive language" or "avoiding wo...

The Rabbits of Watership Down are rabbits. They are as rabbitty as Richard Adams can make them. Everything they do is based on real rabbit b...

Bored now.

This is the complete text of the first part of an essay I wrote a very long time ago, about last Tuesday. People on the internet are unlike...

I make a joke comparing Dawkins to the Borg, the Cybermen and the Daleks. ("He's like a rather ridiculous hyper logical robot in TV...

No.

So, happy birthday then, Jack Kirby You were born 97 years ago today. You were the primary creative force behind Marvel Comics Althou...

I wrote an article. About funnybooks. Here it is:  Are the "words" printed in a "comic book" actually particularly ...

Doctor: All elephants are pink. Nellie is an elephant, therefore Nellie is pink. Logical? Davros: Perfectly. Doctor: You know what a hum...

“Corporal punishment never did me any harm.” “Really? Then what did?”       A.A Milne. attrib. The God Delusion is a very unevenly edit...

“Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it.... "What do you mean?" said Gandalf. "Do you wish me a good morning, or m...

English is my native language. My words mean what I intend. If you read them differently because of "social context" that's y...

Gone out Backson. Bisy backson.

You can buy it from Lulu right now, and from Amazon eventually.  If you want to tell me how clever I am, maybe you could do it ov...

The Rabbits of Watership Down are rabbits. They are as rabbitty as Richard Adams can make them. Everything they do is based on real rabbit b...

Dear Miss Douglas Thanks for your kind note. Yes autumn is really the best of the seasons: and I'm not sure that old age isn't th...

Today's Guardian essay about C.S Lewis contained all the usual distortions by all the usual suspects. If anyone but me is still interes...