The Stinging Truth

What did the Romans do for us? .....

The "People's Front of Judea" Discuss The
Question Of What The Romans Did For Them.

.... is a very popular trope, that comes to us via the Monty Python teams Life of Brian movie, where the "People's Front of Judea" discuss that question ..

King Rex

A lot of creationists believe that dinosaurs and humans co-existed after humans arrived ....

The Left Hand Carving From The Ta Prohm Temple Cambodia Is Often Cited By Creationists ......

.... an example of this is that nearly a third of Texans questioned in a University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll in 2010 believed that humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, 

Has World War Three Just Started?

 Imagine if you were an enemy of the West ....

The Russian Bear Is An Old Nemesis Of The West .....

... and you wanted to attack it in a manner that didn't risk direct military confrontation.

The Basket Tells The Story

The UK has been using a shopping basket of goods, as one of the measure of the cost of living since 1947.

A Typical UK Shopping Basket

This inflating shopping basket, has had items added, but also items removed over those 73 years. 

Sad Little Tale

When the 21 yr old Hubert Rochereau was killed  on the battlefield of Flanders in World War One ....

Hubert Rochereau - A Brave Young Soldier

..... his grieving parents, like many others at that time, turned his bedroom into an impromptu shrine.

Rough Justice And Some Justice

Truck drivers in the Ukrainian Dnepropetrovsk region, had clearly decided that the law was no longer working for them.

Truckers Justice .......

So when they caught a suspected truck thief who they had suspected of stealing fuel and batteries from their vehicles, and they were not disposed to calling the police, mainly as they usually have to pay for such losses from their own pockets. They simply took the law into their own hands and hung the thief up by his ankle from a tree.

Suicide By Air-crash

Its a fact that we don't like to think about too often but there have been a number of suspected suicides by airline pilots.

Not Much Remained Of Germanwings Flight 4U99525,
After It Was Deliberately Crashed In To The Alps

....... flying their air planes into objects or into the ground.

Three Of My Favourite Things

 I was struck by a thought the other day ...

Three Of My Favourite Things!

.... why do we have favourite things?

The Orchestra Of Hate

 One thing that the Princess Markle interview has exposed ...

A Lot Of Social Media Trolling Is Organised ......

.... is that Britain is now in the thrall of the nasty little creed of woke!

Duke And Duchess Of Dishing Dirt

 I see that Meghan and Harry have once again decided to cash in on their fame (or is that infamy?) ...

There's Gold In Dishing The Dirt ....

..... By giving another interview on TV, with many an unchallenged claim thrown out.

Its Just A US Thing ...

The Music Critic ..... a man who the police refused to name came home to his apartment in Peoria, Illinois, to find it had been broken into .....

Not Everyone Appreciates The Unique
 Beauty Of The Trombones Tones ......

However nothing had been taken .... but his trombone, which he had stashed in a cupboard in his bedroom, had been damaged.

The Mister Men

I remember when Tony Benn launched his attempt to become the deputy Labour party leader in 1981 ....

A Shared Vision In The Distance?

.... in order to create a left wing ticket with Labour Party leader Michael Foot (a man he allegedly didn't actually get on with).