Today Blighty can update you on one of our dear old friends - the man we call ‘the nuddy arsed rambler’, aka Stephen Gough, ex-marine and ex-clothed eccentric. For those who don’t remember him, or have successfully banished him from your memory, you can read a previous post here. At that time he was planning […]

The Beeb will do anything for a good poll. Even the posh programmes want to get in on the act. The latest top ten best ever in the whole wide world topic is thinking. Yes, Melvyn Bragg and his fine Radio 4 show In Our Time, which you can listen to online (don’t all rush, […]

Sophia Severin has broken the world record for longest time spent snogging an ugly bloke who is glad for all he can get. Although, Sophia says James Belshaw was quite dashing when they started out on their marathon kiss, he just hasn’t aged very well. She says that his technique lost some of it’s appeal […]

The Cotswolds are known for their honey-coloured houses set amid rolling hills inhabited by toffs who have had it with Chelsea. But that could soon change. A plan has been unveiled to build futuristic houses that wouldn’t look out of place in Sim City 3004. One thing won’t be changing however - the inhabitants. Some […]

If you are in the London area today and can’t find anything to do Blighty would suggest that you chuck a bottle of arsenic down the old neck and end it all. Life just isn’t your thing. The capital is hosting the women’s Wimbledon final, England v Australia cricket at Lords, Live 8 concert at […]

A tragedy has struck this year’s Glastonbury Festival and it threatens to cast a cloud over the whole event, if there weren’t enough non-metaphorical clouds gathering already. Not a single band had plugged their Strats into a Marshall amp before the beer tent was struck by lightning! Witnesses were said to be distraught with many […]

It has come to Blighty’s attention that there is much interest in the British weather this summer and the potential for a heatwave, with even talk of Scotland thawing out. So, in an attempt to stop any confusion here is Blighty’s long term weather forecast.

At the beginning of the month a marching band of very […]

The BBC have been forced to redesign their new weather map after numerous complaints from a place north of England called Scotland. Apparently the natives, known as Scots, were unhappy with the representation of their country as a small puddle in the northern distance. The new design corrects this by placing Scotland in the south […]

Nicholas Stadlen QC has just finished delivering the longest speech in British legal history. He closed it defending the Bank of England, although he had begun it defending the Mercia Building Society. As the QC finished his marathon address the judge said that he didn’t quite catch that and could he repeat it! Groans from […]

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Thank you for your patience. Blighty will be returning to normal shortly…