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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