Calder's Comfort Farm
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UK Politics
A barn conversion cabinet
- 01 September 2008
England is a palimpsest of Medieval churches, ruinous Gothic institutions and follies built by mad aristocrats. Jonathan Calder gives us his vision for a better country
Society
Unsanctioned penguins
- 18 August 2008
- 2 comments
Stalinism is all the rage, as think tanks seek to relocate the population. Meanwhile, Telford's penguins fail to complete the correct paperwork
Society
Let them eat dust
- 05 August 2008
I have written to the government asking for the funds to develop a programme of ‘tightly focused return-to-work training’. I have pitched it halfway between the Boys’ Brigade and Guantanamo Bay...
UK Politics
Homosexual foxes
- 21 July 2008
- 1 comment
Postponed reforms of Straw, and how the country has come over all knife knuts. Jonathan Calder reports from Shropshire
UK Politics
Take me to your leader
- 08 July 2008
Gordon Brown's personality, the shabby treatment of dear old Sir John and close encounters of the food kind - well at the kitchen table anyway
Comedy
Tony Blair's briefs
- 24 June 2008
- 1 comment
Why David Davis should have bought a sports car rather than resigning his seat plus the curious connection between senior Labour figures and the Wombles.
UK Politics
The imaginary cow
- 09 June 2008
- 1 comment
The Widdecombe family cats, bringing a cow to Westminster plus a mysterious conspiracy by the BBC's liberal elite. Yes them...
Comedy
Kenneth Williams the puritan
- 27 May 2008
- 1 comment
The curious rise of later capitalism, the lucrative side of devastation plus the success of a 1960s comedy show
Life & Society
Is Boris the new Roderick Spode?
- 12 May 2008
- 3 comments
Commuting without alcohol, Boris's first wedding and being the blondest Johnson. Jonathan Calder reflects on life in the metrop from his Stiperstones vantage point
Life & Society
Brown, foxes and tai chi
- 28 April 2008
- 1 comment
The perils of taking your fox up the aisle, free premium bonds for all the workers plus good karma for cows...









