Category: Humour

  • 14/02/2025
    David Allen, the Irish comedian, who hosted his own comedy show in the UK, featuring straight talking to the camera,…
  • 24/07/2024
    Why do penguins struggle with modernist architecture? from The Economist Short answer: because the clients were not consulted. Set between the…
  • 22/07/2024
    From pineapple on the pizza to freedom of worship Andrew O’Hagan writing in the London Review of Books Andrew O’Hagan…
  • 25/03/2024
    Oodles of noodles Oodles of noodles: how a global favourite became an economic red flag They are a portable, resilient…
  • 25/02/2024
    Retired husband syndrome — Wet fallen leaves Japanese men have an identity crisis Not as unpleasant as that other material…
  • 21/01/2024
    Kings of convenience Europe’s monarchies are a study in dignified inanity From the Economist. Every family has an heirloom which…
  • 19/01/2024
    NHS The Notional Health Service. Heading in last week’s Economist (13/1/2024). Sad, but true.
  • 02/01/2024
    Medical science, one trim at a time The Economist on pogonophobia and pogonophilia. Many also believed that not shaving offered…
  • 02/01/2024
    Edinburgh’s Festivalisation Rory Scothorne · Short Cuts: Edinburgh’s Festivalisation The first humans​ settled in Scotland around 14,000 years ago. They…
  • 08/12/2023
    Home: That nice warm feeling Welsh couple bereft after bomb squad detonate ornamental garden missile | Wales | The Guardian…