Off you go and don’t come back

Britain’s former counter-terrorism boss has come up with an interesting solution to domestic jihadis. He thinks that if they surrender their passport, they should be put on a charter flight to Syria and allowed to join the Islamic Inquisition as an alternative to festering here and using up the resources of the security services.

Grexit 2

“Defiant” Greek Marxists yelled anti-capitalist slogans and waved clenched fists on Referendum Day. But when it was all over, the clenched fists turned into hands outstretched for more cash from the despised capitalists further north. So it’s okay for other states to be capitalist if it lets the Greeks be scroungers? If that’s what a united Europe means, they can stick it!

Grexit 1

The Greeks voted no to austerity and yes to the rest of Europe giving them more money. Maybe it’s time for the rest of Europe to have a referendum to let the people have a chance to deliver a democratic “get lost” to the Greek scroungers.

Rain on the parade

There it was, raining on the British Grand Prix but every time I looked out of my window, there was brilliant sunshine outside. Still, there’s nothing like a drop of rain for stirring up the normal dull procession of F1. And it even helped Fernando Alonso to score his first points of the season in his clunker of a McLaren.

Alternating not-hot

Not much of a heat wave this week. One hottish day followed by cloudy and cool, and then maybe hottish again. There are no melted railway lines near us.

Banned Wordy Wise

There’s a feature in the Daily Mail called “Peterborough”, to which readers can contribute. Here at the Mansion, the staff like to offer suggestions to the "Wordy Wise" section, which involves creating new words or phrases, with an appropriate explanation, by changing a letter of an existing word. Strangely, theirs never seem to be published. Maybe an example will explain why:
egotestical – bloke who thinks he’s the dog’s bollocks.

Discrimination okay

The college lecturer who got Sir Tim Hunt sacked by UCL as a result of dodgy reporting has been exposed as having a very dodgy CV. Despite this transgression, there is no question of the lecturer getting the sack. Why? Being female and untouchable probably has a lot to do with it.