New Con-LibDem pact?

Why is the present Conservative government so keen on forging an alliance with the Libyan democrats?

Linguistic survival

In Hereford today, I told the tea shop owner it was the best cup of tea I'd had from a cafe in years. Delighted, he burst out, "Goo' boy!"

A seed crystal of suspicion

Yes, an SAS team was captured by Libyan farmhands how interesting. I've met one or two SAS headbangers; "They've lost the plot," was the opinion of a regular Army captain I met in the nineties.

But I'm more interested in the presence of a British spy on a remote farm in the desert 30 miles south of Benghazi, ready-placed to rendezvous with them six months before they arrived - and three months before even the unrest in Tunisia had begun.

Wisconsin News

For those of you following the union-busting moves in Ohio and Wisconsin:

Breaking news: Wisconsin has immediate openings for 250,000 serfs. Must provide own smock.

Extrapolation

Going to pick up the paper yesterday, I found a penny on the pavement and put it it our collecting-box at home. Today, 10p (two five-pence pieces). So tomorrow I expect to find a pound, and Thursday a £10 note.

After that, it'll have to be cheques.

I think I have discovered in Nature an economic model for our times.

Overentitled scribbler juggles smoking petard

Headline of an article by Max Hastings in today's Daily Mail: "How very different it might have been had someone spanked [Prince] Andrew's bottom when he was young."

Just wait until the age of the death of deference turns its attention to you, you po-faced toerag.

I have also submitted this as a comment to Mr Hastings' article; I am not hopeful that it will be allowed through by the flappers.

Bartender update

Until further notice, Harvey Wallbangers will be made with vodka and orange juice only.