David Hemmings and Robert Powell in Daventry

"People thought I was dead, but I wasn't. I was just directing the A-Team." That was how David Hemmings described his career ...

Two ways of cheating at chess

From the Telegraph : A disgraced chess Grandmaster faces a 15-year ban from the game after being caught pretending to be desperate for the l...

The blatant contradiction of the Green Party campaign

Natalie Bennett speaking to the Green Party spring conference, 6 March: "Your vote can change the face of Britain. It can end the fail...

"Fuck off back to Eton"

This could be the biggest thing since the fighting cats of Loughborough , Lord Bonkers writes: "It's got a good beat to it. I vote ...

Hanscom Vulnerability Management team receives cyber award

by Justin Oakes 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs 4/7/2015 -  HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass.  -- The Air Force Vulnerability Management te...

Gibraltar 10 pence 2014 - Barbary Partridge

New circulating type: (news from Andrew G ) (image from Dave Eveson )

Norfolk Invasion

Can anyone out there help with this? We found it in the grounds of Bayfield Hall in Norfolk yesterday. It looks very much like it was specia...

A Place To Rest

When the leaves fell from the trees, there it was.  It's no bigger than the size of a golf ball.  Through the cold, rain, thunder, light...

Phil Ochs: Crucifixion

Phil Ochs, who died in 1976 aged only 35, is a forgotten figure of the counterculture of the Sixties. Crucifixion , says Wikipedia, is about...