Prince Charles has recently been challenged by ministers to prove that GM crops are an environmental disaster waiting to happen. The big question is – how does he know, who told him, and will ministers accept evidence based on hearsay and attributed to barley?
Month: August 2008
This Shrinking Isle
News from the Environment Agency finally proves that everyone is after the raft of free benefits that the British Government hands out without blinking to asylum seekers and minorities. Now everybody at the Department of the Environment or whatever it’s called these days is concerned that the UK is shrinking as well as…
Show, don’t tell
The immense talent behind Father Ted and The IT Crowd is Graham Linehan. His recent appearance at the Edinburgh International Television Festival saw the creator of Moss and Father Dougal give a “masterclass” (a word he doesn’t like) in the art of sitcom writing. The Guardian’s John Plunkett has very kindly paraphrased the…
Coastline
News from the Environment Agency finally proves that everyone is after the raft of free benefits that the British Government hands out without blinking to asylum seekers and minorities. The only reason the coastline is under threat from erosion from the sea is that mermaids are trying to get into the country to…
Hi, I’m Les Sex
Hello, my name is Leslie Essex, and I’m an adult movie cameraman. That’s right, I film pornos. And let me tell you, all those guys that say its dull, boring, unglamorous, uninteresting and what have you – they’re lying, mostly likely married. Oh don’t get me wrong, it can be a long shoot…
Crabladder or Bust
I referred some time ago to my own short-lived experience as a stand-up comic after entering the BBC’s Young Talent competition in 1999/2000 (can’t remember which). The material on offer by me was around 95% original, with only the shoehorning of a good joke in at the end possibly jarring slightly. There I…
