As Blighty is away this week, and the blog is subject to a continual onslaught from poker site and penis extending spammers, comments will have to be approved until I get back. How will you all cope?!

Just when you get used to Helen Mirren being Elizabeth I up pops another skinny bird in a ginger wig to confuse you all over again. This time it’s the Beeb’s turn to haul out the bodices with their new drama The Virgin Queen. Poor old Liz, she was on the throne for fifty years, […]

As regular readers will be aware (both of them) Blighty has rather a low opinion of the old British B&B, likening it to staying in a stranger’s spare bedroom, with the emphasis on ’strange’. This opinion has been arrived at after numerous occasions when tightfistedness came before comfort. So, it came as quite a surprise […]

Ahhh, those halcyon days of youth. Discovering girls, playing football on the rec with your mates drunk on Special Brew, getting a high-pitched wail in your lug-holes while old people stand by and laugh. Perhaps that didn’t happen in your day. But it is the reality for the current generation of teenagers if they hang […]

It seems a bit early in 2006 to be handing out end-of-year awards but there is little chance that George Galloway will be beaten this year in the race for this coveted title. One that he should now keep he’s won it so often. The reason? If you’re a constituent of Bethnal Green and Bow […]

As the brand spanking new year has arrived bang on the heels of the previous one, Blighty turns his attention to the prickly issue of new year’s resolutions. It is customary at this time of year to resolve to stop doing something you shouldn’t, start doing something you should, or, if you’re a bit of […]