Meanwhile, elsewhere in the snowbound East Midlands, a fox had to be rescued by the emergency services after becoming trapped up to its neck in a snowdrift – A spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Alliance commented – “At this time of austerity this is a grotesque waste of hardworking taxpayers’ money. Surely this fox could have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!’
East Midlands Today : Fox Trapped in Snowdrift
Posted in Animals, Nature, This England, tagged Foxes, Incensed Mum, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Snow, Winter on December 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Health and safety gone mad!!!! (not to mention Top Cat)
Posted in Media, Newspapers, Radio, This England, tagged Guardian, Health and safety, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Top Cat on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Baffling remark of the day, in today’s “My media” questionnaire in The Guardian – “Newspapers? The Guardian and Telegraph online. I can’t handle physical papers – having a toddler around makes them a hazard.” I have had a toddler around the house, and I can honestly say that at no point did it occur to [...]
Dr. Heffer
Posted in Media, Newspapers, Politics, This England, tagged Cambridge, Enoch Powell, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Simon Heffer on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I see from Monday’s Guardian that old companion of my youth Simon Heffer has been awarded a doctorate – “Monkey also hears that Simon Heffer has been awarded a Cambridge PhD, in a rather unusual arrangement in which his 1998 biography of Enoch Powell was accepted in place of a doctoral thesis” No truth, then, [...]
The world’s greatest newspaper – and only 25p!
Posted in Media, Newspapers, This England, tagged Daily Express, Inspector Watts, Migrants, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Swine flu on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Priceless headline in yesterday’s Daily Express: Sounds like a case for Inspector Watts, methinks.
Hard-working gypsies put lazy commuter to shame
Posted in Magazines, Media, This England, Trains, tagged Big Issue, Birmingham, Gypsies, Kettering, Market Harborough, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Rothwell, Trains on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(No – not a recent headline from the Daily Express). Buy my copy of the Big Issue this morning from the young girl who’s been selling it outside Sainsbury’s for – I think – a couple of years now. She is – I’ve always assumed – a Roma gypsy (originally from Romania, I believe). I’ve occasionally [...]
It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk …
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Smoking, Sport, This England, tagged Cricket, Leicestershire, Lord's, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Smoking on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The silliest place I’ve ever been told to stop smoking? I think it has to be here – http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Nat_West_media_centre_cropped.jpg (Any sign here of a “semi-enclosed space” – I think not.) To get the full picture you have to bear in mind that this was on the Friday afternoon of one of Middlesex’s County Championship fixtures, [...]
So – how old do you think you look? (asks Tesco)
Posted in This England, tagged Market Harborough, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Supermarkets on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IT’S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!! again. I notice – having dropped in there this morning – that Tesco are upping the ante in the drive to persuade the nation’s teens to become total abstainers. Sainsbury’s already claim that they will challenge anyone who looks under 21 to prove that they are over 18. Tesco now [...]
“Sledge-tow dad could face jail : ‘I gave in to my son’s pestering’” – Harborough Mail
Posted in Media, Newspapers, This England, tagged Market Harborough, Police, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!! on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the man who was snapped towing his six-year-old son behind his 4×4 on a sledge when we had snow back in February. “This is so serious that we are considering a custodial sentence” says the magistrate. I do hope not. As a non-driver I’m not sure quite how dangerous this was, but as [...]
