Margaret Thatcher faces the final curtain. Some notes for those who may be unsure of some of the references. On Margaret Thatcher’s thriftiness and the similarity between gonks and Michael Hesseltine.
Posts By Prenderghast
Mass Psychosis
Preliminary Report for the European Initiative on the Standardization of Emotional Response Measurement(EUI #32549/P) In an effort to further facilitate administrative alignment among the various members of the European Union, the Bureau of European Policy…
Evil Is as Evil Doves
British prime minister David Cameron recently received a lot of unjustified and unnecessary criticism from malevolent commentators in the media for inviting representatives from a number of arms manufacturers and dealers to accompany him on…
Genealogy, by Kevin
Genealogy is brilliant. Some people think that it is not brilliant, but they are wrong. It is. What genealogy is, is finding out who your real parents are. And then who their real parents are,…
Just Because It’s Ship-Shape . . .
Bring on the Empty Forces The British government recently announced that its latest aircraft carrier would not be carrying any aircraft, a decision that we here at Modern Pacifist magazine applaud as a courageous act…
Wronging Writes
OUR CLIENT: is an internationally known mass-media organization at the forefront of disseminating carefully selected pieces of data, on behalf of its customers, to the general public. It has both a traditional and longstanding outlook…
Oh We of Little Faith
An extract from The Sceptics Bible. Part 518 of 666. IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God. 2 Even though Wittgenstein has proved the impossibility…
Varnishing Point
Just because the economy is on its death bed doesn’t mean you have to forgo any part of your beauty routine. After all, when you look good, you feel good, and now more than ever…
Terms of Endearment
FIFA, the international governing body of association football, today released its bi-annual update detailing changes to the nicknames officially assigned to the national football teams of its member states. While for the great majority of…
Don’t Mock the Afflicted: Exploit Them for Literary Gain
In rather feeble attempts to demonstrate their erudition and unsuccessfully prove that they have a sense of humour, members of the medical profession have in recent years been generating articles for publication in which they…
None of Your Fancy French Lickers
Every June, the schoolchildren of the Greater Manchester area nominate and vote for their Lollipop Lady of the Year. Lollipop Ladies are a British institution, known abroad variously as Crossing Guards, School Crossing Supervisors, Crossing…
The Reason Why Rabbits Hop
Once upon a time, superstitions and rituals were the sole preserve of reactionaries, professional athletes, the alienated, children, and those suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. These days, however, it seems like everyone is aware of how…
Slimples
Losing weight doesn’t have to be a major undertaking, providing you’re willing to make the necessary tweaks to your everyday habits that mean the difference between oh-boy! and o-bese. The U.S. National Institutes of Health…
Dublin Psychogeographical Society: Bloomsday Special #3
It was a source of constant irritation to Joyce that Sean O’Casey had a bridge named after him when no writer had done more to integrate north and south sides of the Liffey into a…
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