The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

spotted in Brizzle yesterday... several people with musical instruments, singing about how much better things were in the olden days ...

this made me happy for a week And Happy St George's Day please stand for the national anthem... ...excuse me, i seem to have...

we can look forward to the image of a severely broken tescoes with "closing down sale" scrawled across it adorning many a left win...

-- tescos opens, after a long campaign by (some) local people to stop it from opening (Stokes Croft / Cheltenham Road / Gloucester Road are ...

Basically, there has been a peaceful protest by environmentalist and community activists against a new branch of Tescos opening on Stokes ...

apparently, there has been a riot outside my house.  i didn't start it. in fact i was in the hill grove porter stores talking about 70s ...

So: why are the "no" camp putting forward arguments which they know (unless they really are lunatics) are not true? The easy, cy...

by Peter Bensley published on Facebook on Thursday, 21 April 2011: reprinted with permission. Here's the full text of Cameron's sp...

WARNING: VERY LONG INDEED "I am on neither side in the present controversy. But I still think the abolitionists conduct their case ...

no, no, no, no, no, no, no

WARNING: VERY BORING INDEED The Queen, of course, is not really in charge of anything. The person who is really in charge is the Prime Min...

Remember 1977? There seemed to be a widespread and genuine enthusiasm for celebrating the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The Queen still look...